Get return value from powershell into attribute

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Hi guys

I have been bashing my head against this for hours, and I’m sure there is something simple and obvious that I just don’t know…

I want to run a powershell script to get the FileVersion attribute of a file and save that into a chef attribute on the server.

Here is the recipe I’m struggling with. Please help?

::Chef::Resource::PowershellScript.send(:include, Chef::Mixin::PowershellOut)

powershell_script “read-version” do
cwd Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]
code <<-EOH
sleep 5
[System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo(“C:\Program Files\xxx\yyy\zzz.dll”).FileVersion | fl
Return
EOH
node.default[:gac_integration][:version] = powershell_out(code).stdout
node.default[:gac_integration][:version] = powershell_out(code).stderr
end

Here is the error I am getting…

At line:1 char:58 + [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo(C:\Program Files\Gulf A … + ~ Missing ‘)’ in method call. At line:1 char:58 + [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo(C:\Program Files\Gulf A … + ~~~~~~~~~~ Unexpected token ‘C:\Program’ in expression or statement. At line:1 char:130 + … Integration.dll).FileVersion | fl + ~ Unexpected token ‘)’ in expression or statement. + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:slight_smile: [], ParentContainsErrorRecordEx ception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingEndParenthesisInMethodCall

Many regards
Iain

2

Hey, no monkeypatching PowershellScript. J

Can you try this without powershell_out and see if you can get the same
failure? I had no issues with the following fragment run via chef-apply – I
just piped the output to a file in my recipe and after running chef-apply I
verified the contents of the output file:

powershell_script ‘filever’ do

code <<-EOH

Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe").FileVersion > ~\fileversion.txt

EOH

End

Chef-apply returned successfully when running a file with those contents
and produced the following results:

11.00.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)

Thanks Iain, I’m definitely curious as to what’s causing this and if
there’s something we can do to prevent it.

-Adam

From: Iain Prior [mailto:iain.prior@gac.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 12:14 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Get return value from powershell into attribute

Hi guys

I have been bashing my head against this for hours, and I’m sure there is
something simple and obvious that I just don’t know…

I want to run a powershell script to get the FileVersion attribute of a
file and save that into a chef attribute on the server.

Here is the recipe I’m struggling with. Please help?

::Chef::Resource::PowershellScript.send(:include,
Chef::Mixin::PowershellOut)

powershell_script “read-version” do

cwd Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]

code <<-EOH

sleep 5

[System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo("C:\\Program

Files\xxx\yyy\zzz.dll").FileVersion | fl

Return

EOH

node.default[:gac_integration][:version] = powershell_out(code).stdout

node.default[:gac_integration][:version] = powershell_out(code).stderr

end

Here is the error I am getting…

At line:1 char:58 +
System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo::GetVersionInfo(C:\Program Files\Gulf
A … + ~ Missing ‘)’ in method call. At line:1 char:58 +
System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo::GetVersionInfo(C:\Program Files\Gulf
A … + ~~~~~~~~~~ Unexpected token ‘C:\Program’ in expression or
statement. At line:1 char:130 + … Integration.dll).FileVersion | fl + ~
Unexpected token ‘)’ in expression or statement. + CategoryInfo :
ParserError: (:slight_smile: [], ParentContainsErrorRecordEx ception +
FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingEndParenthesisInMethodCall

Many regards

Iain