how to replace windows style line endings with linux in the replace task?

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Vikram Kone

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Mar 16, 2016, 1:09:52 PM3/16/16

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I tried this, but doesnt seem to work

- name: Fix line endings from CRLF to LF
  local_action: replace dest={{my_dir}}/conf/{{item}} regexp='\r\n' replace='\n'

Johannes Kastl

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Mar 16, 2016, 2:12:30 PM3/16/16

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Hi,

Am 16.03.16 schrieb Vikram Kone:

> I tried this, but doesnt seem to work
>
> - name: Fix line endings from CRLF to LF
> local_action: replace dest={{my_dir}}/conf/{{item}} regexp='\r\n' replace='\n'
>

On a unix machine (Linux, BSD, ...) I would use dos2unix or similar...

Johannes