lineinfile module to replace a string

[Veera]

Hi,

I am trying to replace a  line/string   in a 224   lines file .

Trying with replace and lineinfile module  , but seems i am missing a bit..

below is the string to consider:

logging.files:
  # Configure the path where the logs are written. The default is the logs directory
  # under the home path (the binary location).
  path: /var/log/original

.

Here I want to replace the " /var/log/original"  to " /var/log/newfile"  and I have to search based on the string "logging.files:"  which is 3 lines above.  

- name: Configuring the inputs for the file  
  replace:
    path: /etc/myagent/myfile

    after: 'logging.files:'    here  i want to search 4th  line below the match.. similar to grep -A3)

    regexp: ' path: /var/log/original '
    replace: " path: /var/log/newfile  "

 I have multiple lines with similar entries and I cannot replace directly (based on first match too)

[Dick Visser]

What kind of file is this?

It looks like yaml?

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[Veera]

Yes.. It's basically another yaml file. 

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[Dick Visser]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 21:37, Veera <svee...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes.. It's basically another yaml file. 

I'm asking because string manipulation of otherwise structured data will become messy quickly - as you have found out.

If you must keep all the comments then you'll have to use logic to handle that.

Whenever someone edits the file, or by some software update, your logic might break.

I would either template the entire thing out, based on a config that you have in your ansible code.

Or, use a combination of slurp and write out the structure. This will remove any comments, but one could argue that that is not required anyway.

For example:

  vars:
    filename: /etc/myagent/myfile
    config_opts:
      logging.files:
        path: /var/log/newfile

  tasks:
    - slurp:
        src: "{{ filename }}"
      register: foo

    - set_fact:
        foo: "{{ foo.content | b64decode | from_yaml | combine(config_opts) }}"

    - copy:
        content: "{{ foo | to_nice_yaml }}"
        dest: "{{ filename }}"

[Veera]

Thanks . It worked as expected