Excluding items from debug output

[lift...@gmail.com]

I have a fact that I'm printing out currently for debug purposes.  It's a list of user home folders.  I'm trying to exclude certain folders, but not matter what I try, the folders I want to exclude are displayed.  Here's what I'm trying:

  - name: Set User Home Directory fact

    set_fact:

      user_list: "{{ user_find.json.result | json_query('result[].homedirectory[]') }}"

  - name: Print output

    debug:

      msg: "{{ item }}"

    with_items: "{{ user_list }}"

    when: (user_list != "/home/admin") or (user_list != "/home/jdxadmin") or (user_list != "/home/test2")

I've tried using "and" and "or" and they both print everything, including the items I'm trying to exclude.  Any ideas on where I'm going wrong?

Thanks,

Harry

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

1. you compare apples (list) with pears (strings)
2. "and" would be correct if you compare with the list element: (item != "/home/admin") and (item != "/home/jdxadmin") and (item != "/home/test2")
3. readable version: item not in ["/home/admin", "/home/jdxadmin", "/home/test2"]

Note: the condition is checked for *every* loop element.

Regards
Racke


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[lift...@gmail.com]

Worked perfectly!  I appreciate your help and timely response!

Thanks,

Harry

[flowerysong]

As the other reply pointed out you were comparing a string to a list, so it was always unequal.  However, there's a much cleaner way to output the desired information (a task loop will still have output for skipped items):

- name: Output filtered directory list

  debug:

    msg: "{{ user_list | difference(['/home/admin', '/home/jdxadmin', '/home/test2']) }}"

[Vladimir Botka]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 08:53:23 -0700 (PDT)
"lift...@gmail.com" <lift...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> - name: Print output
> debug:
> msg: "{{ item }}"
> with_items: "{{ user_list }}"
> when: (user_list != "/home/admin") or (user_list != "/home/jdxadmin")
> or (user_list != "/home/test2")

Remove the items from the list

loop: "{{ user_list|difference(deny) }}"
vars:
deny: [/home/admin, /home/jdxadmin, /home/test2]


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