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morizotter
morizotter

Reputation: 1974

How to check if the directory is symlink in chef

I just want to do delete directory if it is not symlnik. 

directory "/var/www/html/" do
  action :delete
  only_if ???
end

Upvotes: 8

Views: 5975

Answers (2)

sethvargo
sethvargo

Reputation: 26997

The selected answer will not work on Windows or systems where Bash is the default interpreter. You should use a Ruby solution to be cross-platform (and faster, since there's no process spawning):

directory '/var/www/html' do
  action :delete
  not_if { File.symlink?('/var/www/html') }
end

Upvotes: 14

Josh Jolly
Josh Jolly

Reputation: 11796

How about:

directory "/var/www/html/" do
    action :delete
    not_if "test -L /var/www/html/"
end

test -L $file returns 0 (true) if $file is a symlink.

Upvotes: 1

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