Adding Multiple lines to file

[Mark Matthews]

Hi

I want to add multiple lines to a host file on some Windows machines.

I tried using win_lineinfile in the following playbook below...but it only added the last line.

---

- name: Add host file entries

  hosts: all

  tasks:

    - name: Check if line is present in config

      win_lineinfile:

        dest: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

        line: "x.x.x.x   www.website1.com"

        line: "x.x.x.x   www.website2.com"

        line: "x.x.x.x   www.website3.com"

        line: "x.x.x.x   www.website4.com"

Is there a way of doing this?

[Matt Martz]

You would probably want to loop over a list of "lines" using with_items, and them just use "{{ item }}" for the "line" argument.

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[Mark Matthews]

Hi Matt

How exactly would that look like in a playbook?

Cheers

Mark

[J Hawkesworth]

Lots of examples of the various ways to loop here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_loops.html#standard-loops

Depending on what you are trying to achieve, you might actually find the win_template module is easier to work with rather than multiple calls to win_lineinfile

Hope this helps,

Jon

[Mark Matthews]

Hi Jon

Thanks for the response.

I was actually able to find a work around. Not a great solution, so will look at win_template.

--- 
- name: Add host file entries 
hosts: all 
tasks: 

  - name: Add host file entries 

    win_lineinfile: 
       dest: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts 
       line: | 

         x.x.x.x www.wesite1.com\r\n 
         x.x.x.x www.wesite2.com\r\n 
         x.x.x.x www.wesite3.com\r\n 
         x.x.x.x www.wesite4.com\r\n 
         x.x.x.x www.wesite5.com

Cheers

Mark

On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 5:11:21 PM UTC, Mark Matthews wrote: