On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Carsten Kraus <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> am new to fabric and to Linux in general.
> I´m working with the sample provided in /doc/samples as of
> commit cc336b5a8210e6b34082aeebef113b6e8d4431eb. (How do U reference git
> 'revisions' btw? : )
> In the sample´s rollback() there is sth like:
> sudo(
> "export PREV=$(ls -1 %(someProjectVar)s|tail -1);" +
> ...
> )
> ..which sets the var $PREV for later use.
> However, for me this isnt working - on my box(Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop) the var
> $PREV will just be empty.
> I even tried
> run(
> "export FOO='bar';" +
> "echo $FOO;"
> )
> This will also result in an empty 'out:' when I run it from fab - when I run
> this being logged in on the target machine with the same user, it´s working
> fine.
> Is there an alternative, how I could store eg. the most recent foldername in
> a var for rolling back purposes?
> Apologies, if this is off-topic & thx for any pointer!!
> Carsten
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