guilhem-cookbooks / bash

Chef cookbook to manage bash {profile, bashrc}

bash cookbook

This cookbook provides a simple bash_profile LWRP.

It create multiple files in bash_profile.d folder and merge them into bash_profile file without loosing any local existing version.

Obviously, it works only on Linux platform.

Usage

Just add bash to your cookbook dependency list.

Requirement

N/C

Resource / Provider

• bash_profile : does the init/setup/parse/merge process. This LWRP will create bash_profile.d folder if not present.

If an existing bash_profile file exists in user home folder, it will be saved in a permanent init file at the very first run and then will be merged each time LWRP is called.

Action

• add: (default) - add a specified file to bash_profile.d folder and merge all files from this folder to given user bash_profile file.
• remove: - remove a specified file from bash_profile.d folder.

Attributes

• filename - name of the file

• user - user to interact with. Group and home folder will be automaticly resolved from system informations.

• content - String to be set on the new profile file. It easily works with simple string, multiline string, or strings loaded from a file.

Syntax

bash_profile 'profile.addin' do
  user 'jdoe'
  content "PATH=/home/jdoe/my_bin:$PATH"
end

Testing

Includes basic chefspec support and matchers.

1. bundle install
2. rspec

Author

Author:: Guilhem Lettron ([e-mail])