Re: 2.1.17 having issue with ExecResult() using pipelines

[Brendan Strejcek]

Mark Burgess wrote:

> binning cats is cruel so cfengine doesn't allow you to gloat with
> "yada yada" afterwards.
>
> Actually this has to do with the fact that no shell is used to wrap
> the command. It could be useful to have a functino which does wrap
> too. For now you can do /bin/sh to hush up the cruelty.

Wow, I so didn't follow that. :-)

nathan r. hruby wrote:

> fooish = ( ExecResult(/bin/sh -c "/bin/cat file | yada | yada | yada") )

Do you use absolute paths for all the yadas? Maybe that is the problem.

Best,
Brendan

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