Ansible - How register some line in variable

Karther

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Dec 10, 2019, 9:20:54 AM12/10/19

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Hey Community ansible !! :)

I have some line texte with this content :

my first line

my second line

my 3ème line

my 4ème line

I want register all this line with one variable ? i don't know if possible or not please ???

Can you help me please Community Ansible ? :)

Best regards,

Karther

Stefan Hornburg (Racke)

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Dec 10, 2019, 10:15:38 AM12/10/19

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Sorry I have no idea what you want to achieve.

Regards
Racke

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Karther

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Dec 10, 2019, 10:32:56 AM12/10/19

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Hey,

I want register some line in one variable ....

I have some line :

my first line

my second line

my 3ème line

my 4ème line

I want that my variable =

my first line

my second line

my 3ème line

my 4ème line

Thanks for your help !! :)

Regards,

Le mardi 10 décembre 2019 16:15:38 UTC+1, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) a écrit :

On 12/10/19 3:20 PM, Karther wrote:
> Hey Community ansible !! :)
>
> I have some line texte with this content :
>
> my first line
> my second line
>
> my 3ème line
> my 4ème line
>
>
> I want register all this line with one variable ? i don't know if possible or not please ???
>
> Can you help me please Community Ansible ? :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Karther

Sorry I have no idea what you want to achieve.

Regards
Racke

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j1f0x

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Dec 12, 2019, 4:48:49 PM12/12/19

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Hi,

maybe you try this:

include_newlines: |
            exactly as you see
            will appear these three
            lines of poetry

fold_newlines: >
            this is really a
            single line of text
            despite appearances

see: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.html

Karther

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Dec 31, 2019, 3:34:58 AM12/31/19

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Hey,

no I have this result with this task :

"msg": "exactly as you see\nwill appear these three\nlines of poetry\n"

Can you help me please ?? :)

Thanks very much,

Best Regards,

Karther

Vladimir Botka

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Dec 31, 2019, 4:26:57 AM12/31/19

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On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:34:57 -0800 (PST)
Karther <ryadmo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> No I have this result with this task :

> "msg": "exactly as you see\nwill appear these three\nlines of poetry\n"
>

> Le jeudi 12 décembre 2019 22:48:49 UTC+1, j1f0x a écrit :
> > maybe you try this:
> > include_newlines: |
> > exactly as you see
> > will appear these three
> > lines of poetry

The playbook below is self-explaining

- hosts: localhost
vars:

msg: |
exactly as you see

will appear these three
lines of poetry

tasks:
- debug:
msg: "{{ msg }}"
- debug:
msg: "{{ msg.split('\n') }}"
- debug:
msg: "{{ msg.split('\n')[:-1] }}"

gives

ok: [localhost] => {

"msg": "exactly as you see\nwill appear these three\nlines of poetry\n"
}

ok: [localhost] => { "msg": [
"exactly as you see",
"will appear these three",
"lines of poetry",
""
]
}

ok: [localhost] => { "msg": [
"exactly as you see",
"will appear these three",
"lines of poetry"
]
}

HTH,

-vlado

J Hawkesworth

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Dec 31, 2019, 4:13:33 PM12/31/19

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Here is another way:

- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
    - name: register file contents
      shell: cat /path/to/file/that/contains/text
      register: file_contents

    - name: show file contents
      debug:
         msg: '{{ file_contents.stdout }}'

or you can use a lookup

- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
    - name: register file contents
      set_fact:
        file_contents: "{{ lookup('file', '/path/to/file/that/contains/text' )}}"

    - name: show file contents
      debug:
         msg: "{{ file_contents }}"