Hi Colin,

The issue is not quotes, but rather the \n and \t characters. I assume you want 
those to be the literally newline and tab characters, but they are getting 
expanded **in the string**. You need to escape the backslash:

    "%s\\\t %s\\\n"

The easiest way to debug this type of issue is to add the following line after 
$provision_script:

    puts $provision_script

If the result (on the terminal) does not look exactly as you expect, Ruby is 
probably reading variables/functions that you actually want Bash reading. If 
you do not need interpolation, you can also use %q instead of <<- and Ruby will 
just accept the string as-is.

Best,
Seth

> On Oct 29, 2014, at 2:31 AM, Colin Kincaid Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi I'm trying the following:
> 
> $provision_script= <<SCRIPT
>         /bin/bash -c "%s\t %s\n"  "$(hostname)" "$(ip -f inet -o addr show 
> eth1 | awk "-F[ /]+" "{ print \$4 }")" >> /vagrant/hosts
>  SCRIPT
> 
>       config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => $provision_script
> 
> 
> I expected everything between the SCRIPT lines to function like a bash shell 
> script. However it seems like ruby is interpreting the quotes differently 
> than what I get from the shell.  Then what is a SCRIPT ? I assume that to get 
> the behavior I would like, I need to create a shell script on the vagrant 
> host and use the other provisioning methods.
> 
> I guess I wanted to state that I like the Vagrant docs, but many things seem 
> short on details. I'm not even sure of some fundamental things like how boxes 
> work from reading the docs. Will there be any effort to make the 
> documentation more complete? I wish there was a more wiki-ish interface, or a 
> place to leave comments under the documentation, like many old projects used 
> to use. Where do I go for more complete information, without sacrificing time 
> ? 
> 
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