Question on win_lineinfile replace/deleting the values with-in config file

[Kumaresh kulal]

Hello,

I have got a task to configure the config file by removing the not required text from the config file. 

Sample Config File:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <variable name="WorkflowLoggingDirectory" value="${specialfolder:folder=LocalApplicationData}" />

  <rules>

    <logger name="WorkflowLogging" writeTo="WorkflowLogFiles" final="true" />

    <logger minLevel="Info" writeTo="EventLog" />

  </rules>

  <targets>

    <target type="File" name="WorkflowLogFiles" fileName="${WorkflowLoggingDirectory}/${shortdate}_Execution.log" layout="${time} ${level} ${message}" concurrentWrites="true" encoding="utf-8" writeBom="true" />

    <target type="EventLog" name="EventLog" layout="${processname} ${assembly-version} ${newline}${message}" log="Application" />

  </targets>

</nlog>

Text to Remove: ${time} ${level} 

So far I was able to do this using the below win_lineinfile playbook and it works fine:

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

   - name: updating content in config file

     win_lineinfile:

       dest: C:\tmp\NLog.config

       regexp: '^(.*)time(.*)$'

       line: '    <target type="File" name="WorkflowLogFiles" fileName="${WorkflowLoggingDirectory}/${shortdate}_Execution.log" layout="${message}" concurrentWrites="true" encoding="utf-8" writeBom="true" />'

       backrefs: yes

I would like to know if there is a better way to handle this instead of re-writing the whole line, can I only replace/delete the portion of the text?

Thank You :-)

Kumar

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

Lineinfile doesn't make sense for XML files, use (win_)xml module.

Regards
Racke

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