[script] Is there a limit on the number of char's within a script block

[username-is-already-taken2]

Hi there

I've come across an issue with regards to the script resouce.

I'm targeting a windows server using WINRM, my script is written in PowerShell and I'm using inspec version 0.15.0

The error I was getting was that when using the inspec shell the stdout of my script would return nothing ""

e.g.

inspec> script(script).stdout => ""
I know my script is OK, after a bit of troubleshooting I think there is a limit of 1166 characters.

Here is a script block to demonstrate, if you run this it should work (in that it returns the numbers) but if you add 5 to the last line it should fail.

script = <<-EOH
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 0123456789
write-host 01234
EOH

The script I'm trying to run comes in at just over 1600 chars (I'm having to use my own functions) but I'll see if I can put it on a diet to squeeze it in :)

Thanks

Gary

[chris-rock]

@username-is-already-taken2 yes, at the moment there is a 8k upload limit as highlighted by @mwrock in WinRb/WinRM#87

So far we have not implemented a native upload feature, because we didn't had the need. I assume you want to use some powershell modules?

[amunoz951]

Running into the same issue. I have a powershell script that needs to run before a test and it's outputting nothing if it's longer than a certain length although the script is only 5k. My thinking is that I create the script in a separate recipe and add it to the kitchen run list. I'd rather do it all through the inspec code but may have to resort to this. Any other ideas?

[mwrock]

Winrm v2 is getting super close but still probably a few weeks away. It will do away with the 8k limit.

In actuality the limit right now is closer to 5k because of the base64 encoding done.

[chris-rock]

@username-is-already-taken2 with the recent move to winrm 2.0 we do not have that restriction anymore