Ansible lookup on file format issue

[Anthony Cheng]

I have been struggling to use the lookup for vars feature, specifically tried something like:

  vars:

    BUCKET_LIST: "{{ lookup('file', 'test') }}"

  vars:

    BUCKET_LIST: "{{ lookup('file', 'test') |to_json }}"

Where test is basically just a flat text file, new line separated

What I want to do is to call the variable in a loop so I can use it in another module, e.g. s3

- name: List s3 bucket

  local_action:

    module: s3

    bucket: "{{ item }}"

    mode: list

  with_items: "{{ BUCKET_LIST }}"

However from debug I can see that the items are not separated:

ok: [localhost] => (item="test1\ntest2-inputtxt2") => {

    "invocation": {

▽       "module_args": {

            "msg": "\"test1\\ntest2-inputtxt2\""

        },

        "module_name": "debug"

    },

    "item": "\"test1\\ntest2-inputtxt2\"",

    "msg": "\"test1\\ntest2-inputtxt2\""

}

Any idea how to properly format with lookup so the item are separated?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

BUCKET_LIST: "{{ lookup('file', 'test').split('\n') }}"

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Kai Stian Olstad