Print output in human readable format

[Ted Meller]

Im having troube in Ansible 2.3.0 to print out my output in a human format. Currently everything comes out as one line. below is a sample of my yaml output.

    register: output

    - name: show output
      debug:
        var: output.stdout

[Daniel JD]

Give an example please. Which output did you expected and what did you actually got?

[Ted Meller]

ok: [192.168.14.25] => {
    "output.stdout": [
        "Radio power mode = ON\nChannel Number = 1062\nCurrent Band = WCDMA 850\nCurrent RSSI(RSCP) = -70 dBm\nLTE Technology Preference = AUTO\nLTE Technology Selected = UMTS"
    ]

[Daniel JD]

Try it like this:

- name: Show output

  debug:

    msg: output.stdout.split("\n")

Which will result in:

localhost | SUCCESS => {

    "msg": [

        "Radio power mode = ON", 

        "Channel Number = 1062", 

        "Current Band = WCDMA 850", 

        "Current RSSI(RSCP) = -70 dBm", 

        "LTE Technology Preference = AUTO", 

        "LTE Technology Selected = UMTS"

    ]

[Ted Meller]

That didn't work. The output I got  from that was:

ok: [192.168.14.25] => {
    "msg": "output.stdout.split(\"\\n\")"

[Daniel JD]

Ups, my bad. Like this "{{ output.stdout.split('\n') }}"

[Ted Meller]

Tried that and ended up getting the below error:

fatal: [192.168.14.25]: FAILED! => {

    "failed": true

}

MSG:

the field 'args' has an invalid value, which appears to include a variable that is undefined. The error was: 'list object' has no attribute 'split'

The error appears to have been in '/home/ansible/4G.yml': line 22, column 7, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

    - name: Show output

      ^ here

[Kai Stian Olstad]

Since you output.stdout is a list you need to say which element in the
list you would like to do a split on.

{{ output.stdout.0.split('\n') }}


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Kai Stian Olstad