How to redirect long string with single/double quotes var in Rundeck? - bash

Question

thank you for taking time reading this question.
I've a Rundeck job with multiple steps. Basically, step 1 and 2 is fetching a long string which is under ' '. Example:
'This is a long string.. and is also under "double quotes" '. -> This variable is stored as the following form: #option.mylongstring#
Third step of my Rundeck job is failing because I'm having issues with single and multiple quotes in my string. I want to extract specific values from that long string
My solution was to send the content of #option.mylongstring# in a temp file and apply sed to convert single quotes into double quotes (sed "s/'/\"/g") and from there, extract the information that I need.
Anyway, seems that the redirection is not happening in Rundeck: echo #option.mylongstring# &> $TEMPFILE is doing nothing, generating an empty file.
Anyone faced the same issue?

Answer 1

Using inline-script works without problems, let me share the job definition example:
<joblist>
<job>
<defaultTab>nodes</defaultTab>
<description></description>
<executionEnabled>true</executionEnabled>
<id>5e7123ce-c9b7-4bfa-a0e8-6484a9bd7c4f</id>
<loglevel>INFO</loglevel>
<name>LongStringExample</name>
<nodeFilterEditable>false</nodeFilterEditable>
<plugins />
<scheduleEnabled>true</scheduleEnabled>
<sequence keepgoing='false' strategy='node-first'>
<command>
<fileExtension>.sh</fileExtension>
<script><![CDATA[echo 'hello "world"' > myfile.txt]]></script>
<scriptargs />
<scriptinterpreter>/bin/bash</scriptinterpreter>
</command>
</sequence>
<uuid>5e7123ce-c9b7-4bfa-a0e8-6484a9bd7c4f</uuid>
</job>
</joblist>
Using an option:
<joblist>
<job>
<context>
<options preserveOrder='true'>
<option name='opt1' />
</options>
</context>
<defaultTab>nodes</defaultTab>
<description></description>
<executionEnabled>true</executionEnabled>
<id>22d7286f-7be9-4aaf-92ae-8e5bf5277d67</id>
<loglevel>INFO</loglevel>
<name>AnotherLongStringExample</name>
<nodeFilterEditable>false</nodeFilterEditable>
<plugins />
<scheduleEnabled>true</scheduleEnabled>
<sequence keepgoing='false' strategy='node-first'>
<command>
<fileExtension>.sh</fileExtension>
<script><![CDATA[echo 'this is another "#option.opt1#"' > another_file.txt]]></script>
<scriptargs />
<scriptinterpreter>/bin/bash</scriptinterpreter>
</command>
</sequence>
<uuid>22d7286f-7be9-4aaf-92ae-8e5bf5277d67</uuid>
</job>
</joblist>