Passing variable to a shell script provisioner in vagrant

vagrant parameter-passing provisioning
user1391445 picture user1391445 · Mar 17, 2013 · Viewed 24.5k times · Source

I'm using a simple shell script to provision software for a vagrant setup as seen here.

But can't figure out a way to take the command line arguments passed in to vagrant and send them along to an external shell script. Google reveals that this was added as a feature but I can't find any documentation covering it or examples out there.

Answer

Johann picture Johann · May 24, 2013

You're correct. The way to pass arguments is with the :args parameter.

config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "bootstrap.sh", :args => "'first arg' second"

Note that the single quotes around first arg are only needed if you want to include spaces as part of the argument passed. That is, the code above is equivalent to typing the following in the terminal:

$ bootstrap.sh 'first arg' second

Where within the script $1 refers to the string "first arg" and $2 refers to the string "second".

The v2 docs on this can be found here: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/shell.html

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