Ansible parse variables with special characters

[pnagar...@gmail.com]

I need to pass certain strings with special characters like $ to variables.
I was able to parse by providing the values in single quotes or using \ when the string contains a single $ .

Ex below x is my variable.

X : '${name}' --> this works.

But when my variable value is complex containing many $ in its value, it doesn't parse it.

Example :
X : '${name} --loglevel = ${loglevel}, --type=${type}'

The above is a shortend version but actually has many $ in the same format like above.
I tried using \ for every $ but it didn't help.

Is there a way to parse them ?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

I got no problem with this so I think you need to explain more in detail
what you are doing.

$ cat test.yml
---
- hosts: localhost
vars:
x: '${name} --loglevel = ${loglevel}, --type=${type}'
tasks:
- debug: msg="{{ x }}"

$ ansible-playbook test.yml
PLAY [localhost]
***************************************************************

TASK [debug]
*******************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {}

MSG:

${name} --loglevel = ${loglevel}, --type=${type}

PLAY RECAP
*********************************************************************
localhost : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0
failed=0


In this example you don't even need the single quotes to make it work.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Eric Dunn]

I had ame issue.

Try escaping dollar sign

X : '\${name} --loglevel = \${loglevel}, --type=\${type}' 

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