Puppet::Type.newtype(:file_line) do desc <<-EOT Ensures that a given line is contained within a file. The implementation matches the full line, including whitespace at the beginning and end. If the line is not contained in the given file, Puppet will append the line to the end of the file to ensure the desired state. Multiple resources may be declared to manage multiple lines in the same file. Example: file_line { 'sudo_rule': path => '/etc/sudoers', line => '%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL', } file_line { 'sudo_rule_nopw': path => '/etc/sudoers', line => '%sudonopw ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL', } In this example, Puppet will ensure both of the specified lines are contained in the file /etc/sudoers. Match Example: file_line { 'bashrc_proxy': ensure => present, path => '/etc/bashrc', line => 'export HTTP_PROXY=http://squid.puppetlabs.vm:3128', match => '^export\ HTTP_PROXY\=', } In this code example match will look for a line beginning with export followed by HTTP_PROXY and replace it with the value in line. **Autorequires:** If Puppet is managing the file that will contain the line being managed, the file_line resource will autorequire that file. EOT ensurable do defaultvalues defaultto :present end newparam(:name, :namevar => true) do desc 'An arbitrary name used as the identity of the resource.' end newparam(:match) do desc 'An optional ruby regular expression to run against existing lines in the file.' + ' If a match is found, we replace that line rather than adding a new line.' + ' A regex comparisson is performed against the line value and if it does not' + ' match an exception will be raised. ' end newparam(:multiple) do desc 'An optional value to determine if match can change multiple lines.' + ' If set to false, an exception will be raised if more than one line matches' newvalues(true, false) end newparam(:after) do desc 'An optional value used to specify the line after which we will add any new lines. (Existing lines are added in place)' end newparam(:line) do desc 'The line to be appended to the file or used to replace matches found by the match attribute.' end newparam(:path) do desc 'The file Puppet will ensure contains the line specified by the line parameter.' validate do |value| unless (Puppet.features.posix? and value =~ /^\//) or (Puppet.features.microsoft_windows? and (value =~ /^.:\// or value =~ /^\/\/[^\/]+\/[^\/]+/)) raise(Puppet::Error, "File paths must be fully qualified, not '#{value}'") end end end # Autorequire the file resource if it's being managed autorequire(:file) do self[:path] end validate do unless self[:line] and self[:path] raise(Puppet::Error, "Both line and path are required attributes") end end end