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Changing Directories in Chef Recipe

This is my first attempt at writing a chef cookbook. I'm attempting to write a recipe that will automatically install git, make a new directory (git_repo), change to that directory, initialize to be a git repository, and then connect to the remote git repository once I run chef-client on my node. I got it to install git and make the directory but I am unsure how to write within the recipe to change directory to git_repo. the code I have is

Quote:

package 'git' do
action :install
end

directory '/home/git_repo' do
mode 0755
owner 'root'
group 'root'
action :create
end

execute 'change' do
command "sudo cd git_repo"
end

Is there a better resource type to use besides execute for this particular action? If so, could someone elaborate on it?

Why do you need to run the cd command? Many of Chef's commands offer a cwd (i.e. Current working directory) option. Why can't you use that?

Here's an example.

Code:

bash 'extract_module' do

  cwd '/home/git_repo'

  code <<-EOH

    git init

    git remote add origin some_url

    git fetch origin

    git reset --hard origin/master

    EOH

end

See https://docs.chef.io/resource_bash.html

Well it was the first time I was writing a cookbook and I did end up using cwd. That's why I marked the post as solved. Regardless, thank you for the help.

Glad you figured it out. Perhaps post your solution when you solve it so others can benefit. After rereading my original reply it came off a bit terse. That was not my intent.