How to get rid of percentage sign from template execution?

[dhruvinsh]

> chezmoi execute-template '{{ (output "hostnamectl" "--json=short" | mustFromJson).Chassis -}}'
vm%  

When I execute above template on one of the VM I get vm%, how can I get rid of the percentage sign here?

Because with % sign, chezmoi init doesn't work and gives error like chezmoi.toml.tmpl: toml: incomplete number

I tried but still the same.

chezmoi execute-template '{{ trimSuffix "%" (output "hostnamectl" "--json=short" | mustFromJson).Chassis -}}'
vm%

at this point I am not sure if % is line ending, but not sure.

This config is not working for me.

{{/* chassisType variable set to "desktop" or "laptop" or "vm" */}}
{{- $chassisType := (output "hostnamectl" "--json=short" | mustFromJson).Chassis }}

[data]
  chassisType = {{ $chassisType }}

Update:
found the solution

{{/* chassisType variable set to "desktop" or "laptop" or "vm" */}}
{{- $chassisType := (output "hostnamectl" "--json=short" | mustFromJson).Chassis }}

[data]
  chassisType = {{ $chassisType | quote }}

[bradenhilton]

Doesn't the percent sign just signify the end of the output? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/167582/why-zsh-ends-a-line-with-a-highlighted-percent-symbol

What are the contents of the config template?

[dhruvinsh]

just updated the main issue for the same. I am not sure what I am doing then but not able to get it work

[dhruvinsh]

well this solves the issue.
#1769 (comment)
I am missing quote at the end

  chassisType = {{ $chassisType | quote }}

[halostatue]

The % is not part of the output.

You need to do one of the following:

{{/* chassisType variable set to "desktop" or "laptop" or "vm" */}}
{{- $chassisType := (output "hostnamectl" "--json=short" | mustFromJson).Chassis }}

[data]
  chassisType = {{ $chassisType | quote }}

or

{{/* chassisType variable set to "desktop" or "laptop" or "vm" */}}
{{- $chassisType := (output "hostnamectl" "--json=short" | mustFromJson).Chassis }}

[data]
  chassisType = "{{ $chassisType }}"

You can see the difference here (I don’t use Linux, so I don’t have hostnamectl):

$ chezmoi execute-template '{{ (output "echo" "{\"Chassis\": \"vm\"}" | mustFromJson).Chassis  }}'
vm%
$ chezmoi execute-template '{{ (output "echo" "{\"Chassis\": \"vm\"}" | mustFromJson).Chassis  | quote }}'
"vm"%

Under fish, this looks like:

$ chezmoi execute-template '{{ (output "echo" "{\"Chassis\": \"vm\"}" | mustFromJson).Chassis  }}'
vm⏎

$ chezmoi execute-template '{{ (output "echo" "{\"Chassis\": \"vm\"}" | mustFromJson).Chassis | quote }}'
"vm"⏎

Fish is using ⏎ instead of % to mean the same thing.

[halostatue]

TOML doesn’t allow bareword values for keys:

[data]
  chassis = vm # ❌

vs

[data]
  chassis = "vm" # ✅

[dhruvinsh]

I appreciate your help, yes I figure it out that i need to use | quote to make it string.