Extension attribute help

[tkimpton]

Hello

I have an extension attribute which does a simply cat of a txt file.

The problem is the txt file has carriage returns in it and I would like to include them because the recon inventory shows all the information bunched together and i need to be able to separate the data Can anyone help at all?

[sean · Accepted solution]

Welcome to my feature request. It used to, but Jamf stopped it doing this. Add yourself to the request and send your jamf contact the same information.

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/featureRequest.html?id=110

Sean

[sean · Accepted solution]

Welcome to my feature request. It used to, but Jamf stopped it doing this. Add yourself to the request and send your jamf contact the same information.

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/featureRequest.html?id=110

Sean

[tkimpton]

Thanks very much

[rmanly · Accepted solution]

Here is a way to translate the newlines into a different delimiter so you can parse it back out later.

$ cat test
blah
blah
blah
$ echo "<result>$(cat test | tr "
" ":")</result>"
<result>blah:blah:blah:</result>
$

*shrug*

May help a bit in the meantime.

[tkimpton]

Hi rmanly

Please can you help i am not clear on your solution. I am currently using this but i do not know what to change it to

#!/bin/bash
drives=cat /var/tmp/external_drives_monitor/drives.txt
echo "<result>$drives</result>"
exit0

[tkimpton]

Apologies. I was being thick

[rmanly]

XD