Blockinfile - how to delete text

[Anfield]

I have this text file and I was trying to delete some text that I had just added. Not sure how I would go about deleting

1) The entire text tree and the wrappers #BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK

2) Just deleting the text tree

Can anyone explain? Thanks

The delete functionality is not functioning as expected

(ansible 2.3.0)

textfile - 

giraffe

This is my text to add

Noooooooooooooo

penguin

robot

#BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK

tree

#BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK

Tried the following playbook and it just deleted the last wrapper

Playbook

---

- hosts: local

  tasks:

    - name: Use blockinfile

      blockinfile:

        path: /home/ansible/blockexample.txt

        marker: "#BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK"

        block :

           tree

        state: absent

Outcome - 

giraffe

This is my text to add

Noooooooooooooo

penguin

robot

#BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK

tree

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On torsdag 31. august 2017 18.24.14 CEST Anfield wrote:
> textfile -
>
> giraffe
> This is my text to add
> Noooooooooooooo
> penguin
> robot
>
> #BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK
> tree
> #BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK
>
>
> Tried the following playbook and it just deleted the last wrapper
>
> Playbook
>
> ---
> - hosts: local
> tasks:
> - name: Use blockinfile
> blockinfile:
> path: /home/ansible/blockexample.txt
> marker: "#BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK"
> block :
> tree
> state: absent

The problem is that the start marker and end marker is the same and
blockinfile doesn't now where to start and stop.

If you take a look at the blockinfile documentation under marker you will see
that it contain the template sign {mark} that will be changed for START or END

That way the start and end marker differ.

Just run your test without marker: and you'll see how it work since marker has
a default value that only need to be changed if your are using more than one
blockinfile on a file.


--
Kai Stian Olstad