[chef] Re: Re: Re: Capture output from a command or read contents from a file

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Harlan Barnes wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Matt Ray 
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> > Take a look at using Mixlib::ShellOut (previously Chef::ShellOut).
> > https://github.com/opscode/mixlib-shellout
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> > Here's an outdated example (needs to be updated to Mixlib from Chef).
> > https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/blob/master/drbd/recipes/pair.rb#L49
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> Thanks Matt. This is probably a stupid question, but Is Mixlib::ShellOut 
> packaged with Chef? I don't see it in the latest version and gem install 
> mixlib-shellout fails ("not in any repository"). I just wanted to make sure 
> before I download and install it from github. 
It's only a prerelease right now, wanted to wait to make it "final."

Anyway, using Chef::ShellOut should be fine, and compatibility should be 
maintained even when we switch to using the mixlib version. The current plan 
is to introduce deprecation warnings for Chef::ShellOut starting with Chef 
0.11.

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Dan DeLeo