How to add export statements to bash_profile with Augeas and Puppet

Question

I have Puppet + Augeas working to assign variable values in a bash_profile, however I have not found a way to export the variables from the file.

  augeas { "bash_profile-${user}-${name}":
    incl    => "/home/${user}/.bash_profile",
    lens    => 'Shellvars.lns',
    changes => "set ${variable_name} '\"${literal_value}\"'",
  }

Results in:

# .bash_profile 
variable="value"

But what i need is:

# .bash_profile 
export variable="value"
# or
variable="value"
export variable

This Puppet ticket seems like it should point in the right direction, but I can't make out how to write the export statements

Have you considered managing the file directly with a `.erb` providing the content? — Matthew Schuchard, May 14 '18 at 12:07
I would, but there is existing content I don't want to overwrite — Simon Hardman, May 15 '18 at 03:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '18 at 05:02

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The Augeasproviders project has a shellvar type for that:

shellvar { "bash_profile-${user}-${name}":
  ensure   => exported,
  target   => "/home/${user}/.bash_profile",
  variable => $variable_name,
  value    => $literal_value,
}

There are also options to manage quoting or array values.

answered May 14 '18 at 05:02

raphink

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Very nice - I will have a look at these next time – Simon Hardman May 15 '18 at 03:38

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '18 at 04:29

This seems to do the trick:

  augeas { "bash_profile-${user}-${name}":
    incl    => "/home/${user}/.bash_profile",
    lens    => 'Shellvars.lns',
    changes => [
      "set ${variable_name} '\"${literal_value}\"'",
      "set ${variable_name}/export ''",
      ],
  }

How to add export statements to bash_profile with Augeas and Puppet

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