lineinfile inserts dos style new line character

[jepper]

I'm setting up tomcat, and change a parameter in a config file as follows:

- name: set max-request-size

  lineinfile: dest={{ tomcat_home }}/webapps/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml regexp="max-request-size" line="<max-request-size>1000000000</max-request-size>"

Post processing, lines in the target file web.xml now end with a ^M. The lines that were replaced are fine, e.g.

    <multipart-config>^M
        <max-request-size>1000000000</max-request-size>            <--- OK!
      <file-size-threshold>0</file-size-threshold>^M

This is as seen vi, on a RHEL64 system.

What am I doing wrong?

[James Cammarata]

The lineinfile module uses the os.linesep variable to insert newlines, so this should not be happening unless the file had either been edited on a Windows system or had the ^M's before the edit occurred. Can you verify the original file did not have the incorrect newlines, and that you are not running the playbook from a Windows machine (ie. via cygwin)?

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