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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rwxr-xr-x | lib/puppet/type/exec.rb | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/exec.rb b/lib/puppet/type/exec.rb index 3ba488f19..35e0c96d7 100755 --- a/lib/puppet/type/exec.rb +++ b/lib/puppet/type/exec.rb @@ -311,17 +311,20 @@ module Puppet end newcheck(:creates, :parent => Puppet::Parameter::Path) do - desc "A file that this command creates. If this + desc <<-EOT + A file that this command creates. If this parameter is provided, then the command will only be run - if the specified file does not exist: + if the specified file does not exist. - exec { \"tar xf /my/tar/file.tar\": - cwd => \"/var/tmp\", - creates => \"/var/tmp/myfile\", - path => [\"/usr/bin\", \"/usr/sbin\"] + exec { "tar -xf /Volumes/nfs02/important.tar": + cwd => "/var/tmp", + creates => "/var/tmp/myfile", + path => ["/usr/bin", "/usr/sbin"] } - " + In this example, if `/var/tmp/myfile` is ever deleted, the exec + will bring it back by re-extracting the tarball. + EOT accept_arrays |