[Buildbot-devel] Mac's "cat" behaves strangely if encapsulated in buildbot's ShellCommand

[Bob Hood]

On 7/8/2010 3:28 PM, David Mor wrote:
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> Dear Buildbot Developers,
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>   Thank you all for the recent 0.8.1 release.
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> Before upgrading, I would like to solve the current issue I encountered.
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> I was trying to use issue a "cat" command and a "rm" command to print
> and delete multiple textfiles on
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> Mac OS X  by writing the following in master.cfg
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> printMicSummaryStep = \
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>     ShellCommand(description="Printing MicSummary",
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>                  descriptionDone="Printed MicSummary",
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>                  command=["cat", "micsummary*.txt"],
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>                  workdir=[workdir])
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I believe "workdir" needs to be a string, not a list, e.g.:

    ...addStep(shell.ShellCommand(command=["./run_test"],
workdir="/Users/me/buildbot_branches/trunk/tests"))