Re: getting a solid result from an ExecResult...

[Doug Nordwall]

thanks!! very nice, it works :)

On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 09:00 AM, Adrian Phillips wrote:

> > > > > > "Doug" == Doug Nordwall <doug@pnl.gov> writes:
>
>     Doug> I'm trying to do the following myVar = (ExecResult
>     Doug> (/bin/grep astring ${myFile}) )
>
>     Doug> Now, this does return the result, save that the grep finds 3
>     Doug> instances, and it appears that cfengine ignores the \n's on
>     Doug> the end and strings all the results together. Fine, I say,
>     Doug> to myself , I'll work around it, so I do things like
>
>     Doug> myVar1 = (ExecResult (/bin/grep astring ${myFile} |
>     Doug> /usr/bin/head -1) ) myVar2 = (ExecResult (/bin/grep astring
>     Doug> ${myFile} | /usr/bin/head - 2 | /usr/bin/tail -1) )
>
>     Doug> Oddly, the second line seems to break cfengine.  None of
>     Doug> them appear to work correctly.
>
>     Doug> Has anyone gotten something like this to work?
>
> try :-
>
>  ExecResult (/bin/sh -c "command | command")
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Adrian Phillips
>
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