Chef conditional execute in recipe

Question

I'd like to create an execute block which is only run when some specific condition is met (in this case if an interface wlan0 is present). Alternatively, I'd like to prevent the notifies clause of a template on the same condition.

How can I describe that in a recipe? I could of course put the whole condition in the execute's command, but I hope there's a better way to achieve this...

The 'guards' 'not_if' and 'only_if' will only execute a resource if a script returns true. https://docs.chef.io/resource_execute.html — spuder, Jun 13 '15 at 03:45

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 06 '15 at 21:32

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Go to: https://docs.chef.io/resources.html#guards

Look at the section titled "Conditional Execution"

edited Oct 06 '15 at 21:32

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answered Jul 14 '11 at 19:47

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That no longer exists. – William Pietri Apr 28 '15 at 18:33
seems to be back now. – user2066657 Jul 11 '19 at 21:21

Chef conditional execute in recipe

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