trouble iterating through stdout_lines

[Marcos Georgopoulos]

Hi, I am trying to work out how to iterate through some results from a command I am running on a network device. the idea is when I find the line that matches what I am looking for based on a regexp I want to store it.

tasks:

- name: get the existing access-list
 ios_command:
 provider: "{{ cli }}"
 commands:
 - show access-list mgtaccess
 register: result

- debug: var=result.stdout_lines

- name: Do something with each result
 debug:
 msg: "{{ item }}"
 with_items:
 - "{{ result.stdout_lines }}"

This is the output from the task

ok: [172.16.1.135] => (item=[u'Standard IP access list mgtaccess', u'    20 permit 10.1.1.1', u'    10 permit 192.168.0.1', u'    30 permit any (2566 matches)']) => {
    "changed": false,
    "failed": false,
    "item": [
        "Standard IP access list mgtaccess",
        "    20 permit 10.1.1.1",
        "    10 permit 192.168.0.1",
        "    30 permit any (2566 matches)"
    ],


    "msg": [
        "Standard IP access list mgtaccess",
        "    20 permit 10.1.1.1",
        "    10 permit 192.168.0.1",
        "    30 permit any (2566 matches)"

    ]
}

I'm confused shouldn't I be seeing multiple individual 'msg's??

Many thanks.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

result.stdout_lines is a list that contains lists
So you have result.stdout_lines.0.0 the first line, result.stdout_lines.0.1 the second one and so on.

You can do
with_items: '{{ result.stdout_lines.0 }}'
to get what you are after.


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Kai Stian Olstad