Stdout processing

[Eric Marquez]

Simple question, what’s the best way to capture stdout from a task that is performed?  For example I want to run a command to gather some telemetry from a switch but is using the debug the best way to get the stdout data?  I feel like there is a different way to do this without using debug.

 

 

---

- name: show mac address-table

  register: output

  nxos_command:

    commands:

      - show mac address-table | json

    provider: "{{ cli }}"

- name: output debug for mac address-table

  debug: var=output

 

 

- name: copy output to file

  copy:

    content: "{{ output.stdout_lines }}\n"

    dest: /var/tmp/macaddress.txt

 

 

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[Peter Sprygada]

Use a registered variable to access the return data.  

See example here: https://gist.github.com/privateip/6d3c2eb6a7301a4d20eda17af2b19be0

More about registered variables here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#sts=Registered Variables%C2%B6

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