virsh command issue with ansible. launching command within $()

[Alex Dodson]

Hello All,

I have a command to run. Here is a demo of it from the ceph doco

sudo virsh secret-set-value --secret 457eb676-33da-42ec-9a8c-9293d545c337 --base64 $(cat client.cinder.key)

when I try to shell: the command below the cat command within the $() doesnt run. It outputs in a specific format I can't quite match with tr so catting it normally and removing tabs and new lines does not work for me.

virsh secret-set-value --secret 457eb676-33da-42ec-9a8c-9293d545c337 --base64 $(cat client.cinder.key)

When I try to shell:  the below to set it as a variable I get

$(cat client.cinder.key)

failed: [hostname] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "$(cat keyring)", "delta": "0:00:00.008503", "end": "2014-09-23 07:55:37.978874", "rc": 127, "start": "2014-09-23 07:55:37.970371"}
stderr: /bin/sh: [client.cinder]: command not found

[client.cinder] is the first line within the file I cat so for w/e reason it is trying to execute that it appears.

Any ideas how to stop that occuring?

thanks,
Alex

[James Cammarata]

Hi Alex, are you breaking this command up over multiple lines by any chance? With the current devel branch, the shell module will interpret newlines as the start of a new command to execute, so doing this:

- shell: |

    echo

    $(cat /path/to/foo)

will result in the contents of the file "foo" being executed similar to what you're seeing above.

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[Michael DeHaan]

Might be good to share the playbook line where you are calling virsh?

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