Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

Script argument – string

The following is a syntax example when using a string script argument in your Vagrantfile:

config.vm.provision :shell do |shell|     shell.inline = "echo $1"     shell.args = "'this is a test'" end

When the vagrant up process hits the provisioning stage, we will see an output echoed onto the screen with a value of this is a test:

Please note: You must remember to properly escape your string. In this case, we are wrapping the string within single quotes. The system would essentially see the 'this is a test' echo, which would not throw any errors.