Re: Setting a variable from a shellcommand

[Chip Seraphine]

Argh!  At least as of 2.0.6, ExecResult is mentioned in the tutorial but 
*not* the Reference.  I shoulda looked in both....

Anyway, that does the trick nicely.  Thanks.

See everybody at the BOFS!

Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> Look up builtin functions in the reference documentation
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> On 21 Oct, Chip Seraphine wrote:
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> > I may be obtuse, but short of writing a module how can I set a cfengine 
> > variable from the output of a shellcommand?  I could have sworn I've 
> > seen it done before, but I can't find it.
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> > I want to do set a variable (call it $(my_ypserver)) to the output of 
> > the /usr/bin/ypwhich command.  A module seems like overkill for this....
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