Ansible facts from command line - drill down

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Anfield

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Aug 23, 2017, 3:02:57 PM8/23/17

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Running this from command link - ansible all -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_default_ipv4*'

The output is

127.0.0.1 | SUCCESS => {
"ansible_facts": {
"ansible_default_ipv4": {
"address": "192.168.150.129",
"alias": "eno16777736",
"broadcast": "192.168.150.255",
"gateway": "192.168.150.2",
"interface": "eno16777736",
"macaddress": "00:0c:29:23:6d:31",
"mtu": 1500,
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
"network": "192.168.150.0",
"type": "ether"
}
},
"changed": false
}

Trying to drill down to just display the address portion, and it is not displaying. ansible all -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_default_ipv4_address' or ansible all -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_default_ipv4.address' does not display the address fact.

Do I have to do a grep on it or can I drill all the way down to address using the inbuilt ansible setup command? I know I can run this and it works -> [ansible@localhost exercises]$ ansible all -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_default_ipv4*' | grep address

Matt Martz

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Aug 23, 2017, 3:35:50 PM8/23/17

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The filter functionality only works for top level keys. You can either grep, or use the `--tree` option to write the response out to a file, and then use something like jq or a programming language to parse the JSON file.

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