Shell provisioner: invalid character '*' after array element

[Tekchand Dagar]

Hello Team,

I am encoding my ruby code using rubyencoder and its create ".bak" file which contain our actual code. So i need to delete all the ".bak" extension file. I am using shell provisioner to do this. Below is my shell provisioner:

{

    "type": "shell",

    "inline": [

        "sleep 10",

        "sudo /home/deploy/rubyencoder-evaluation/bin/rubyencoder -r /home/deploy/mobilock-app/app/controllers/",

        "sudo find /home/deploy/mobilock-app/app/controllers/ -type f -name "*.bak" -delete"

       ]

},

But when i am validating my .json file i am getting below error:

Failed to parse template: Error parsing JSON: invalid character '*' after array element

At line 115, column 79 (offset 3858):

  114:         "sudo /home/deploy/rubyencoder-evaluation/bin/rubyencoder -r /home/deploy/mobilock-app/app/controllers/",

  115:         "sudo find /home/deploy/mobilock-app/app/controllers/ -type f -name "*

                                                                                    ^

Can you please help me to fix this issue.

Thanks.

[Rickard von Essen]

You need to escape double quotes in json with \.

I recommend that you don't use inline for anything but trivial commands, instead use scripts. 

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