On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 8:51 PM Mark Reynolds <mreynolds@redhat.com> wrote:
Well I tried a lot of different things, but for some reason switching
the first two items to use single quotes instead of double quotes got it
working:

                                              let cmd = [
-                                                "/bin/sh",
-                                                "-c",
+                                                '/bin/sh', '-c',
                                                  '/usr/bin/echo -e "' +
setup_inf + '" >> ' + setup_file
                                              ];

That's strange. Not sure what would cause such a regression. Perhaps a different javascript compiler/transpiler?

In any case, you may be looking for cockpit.script():

https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/cockpit-spawn#cockpit-spawn-script

Cheers,

Stef

On 8/25/21 12:38 PM, Mark Reynolds wrote:
> This code used to work for a long time, but now it stopped working as
> expected:
>
>     let cmd = [
>         "/bin/sh",
>         "-c",
>         '/usr/bin/echo TEST >> ' + setup_file
>     ];
>
>     cockpit.spawn (cmd, { superuser: true, err: "message" })
>
>
> Now the output file (setup_file) is empty.
>
> When I run that command on F33 it also does not write to the file. 
> Ok, so I changed it to just "echo STRING >> /tmp/my_file" which works
> on the command line, but in Cockpit spawn it still does not write/echo
> to the file:
>
>     let cmd = [
>         '/usr/bin/echo TEST >> ' + setup_file
>     ];
>
>     cockpit.spawn (cmd, { superuser: true, err: "message" })
>
>
> I've tried different variations of this command, but none of them
> actually write (or echo) to the file whne using spawn().  I also tried
> "script(), but it didn't help.  This used to work until just recently,
> so I'm not sure what is wrong or what changed in Cockpit/Fedora...
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
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