How to do lookup a dynamic filename?

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Eddie Welker

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Jan 29, 2015, 4:56:23 PM1/29/15

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Hi,

I'm trying to do something like the following in 'group_vars/all":

name: "{{ lookup('env', 'PROJECT_NAME') }}"
file: "{{ lookup('file', '{{name}}' ) }}"

but of course, the syntax above won't work.

Is there an alternate way to do this? I can't think of a way to accomplish this.

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Matt Martz

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Jan 30, 2015, 7:27:09 PM1/30/15

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You do not (and cannot) nest jinja print brackets

What you are looking for is:

file: "{{ lookup('file', name ) }}"

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