Remove a line from file and surrounding

[Laci]

I'm working on a playbook which would remove lines from a file containing specific hostname.

I want to use Ansible to remove the hostname AND surrounding lines. Here is an example of a block that I need to remove:

FileSet {

Name = "vcenter-hostname05"

 Include {

   Options {

   signature = SHA1

   compression=GZIP

   noatime=yes

 }

Plugin = "vsphere: server=vsphere-vcenter host=hostname05.domain.com abort_on_error"

       }

}

Does anyone have a suggestion how would I match the lines when all I have is hostname05?

[Laci]

So far my best option is to run a command which invokes sed

[Jeff S]

You can use those modules, replace & lineinfile, to search for a pattern and replace it with something.

ansible.builtin.replace module – Replace all instances of a particular string in a file using a back-referenced regular expression — Ansible Documentation

ansible.builtin.lineinfile module – Manage lines in text files — Ansible Documentation

or use the shell module to work with sed!

[Laci]

Thank you Jeff!

I ended up using a shell script with sed.