"No such file or directory" when using shell provisioner

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I have some code which works find when I run it from the Packer root path, but now I’m trying to run it from one directory higher from a bash menu and I’m having issues with my shell provisioner resulting in a “No such file or directory…” message.

My folder structure is:

  • menu.sh
  • Alma
    –files
    —file.txt
    –scripts
    —script1.sh
  • rocky
    –files
    —file.txt
    –scripts
    —script1.sh

The file provisioner works fine with:

Provisioner “file” {
source = “${abspath(path.root)}/files/file1.txt”
destination = “/tmp”
}

provisioner “shell” {
execute_command = local.execute_command
scripts = var.shell_scripts
}

… but I can’t figure out how to use ${abspath(path.root)} or something with my array of scripts. I’m calling the scripts from a var file whereas I have the files hard-coded in the packer file, so I suppose I could do the same with the scripts, but in an ideal world I’d like to put everything in the var file.

Ideas?