[Puppet Users] backtick in exec

2010-12-06 Thread Matt Keating
How do you do a backtick inside an exec? eg: exec { Testworld: command = /bin/echo hello `cat /etc/hostname` /tmp/hello.txt, } Thanks, Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [Puppet Users] backtick in exec

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick
On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Matt Keating wrote: How do you do a backtick inside an exec? eg: exec { Testworld: command = /bin/echo hello `cat /etc/hostname` /tmp/hello.txt, } In general, you can't because that would need to be run by a shell, not by puppet. If you want to do