parsing output from json

[akku]

ansible --version
ansible 2.2.1.0
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

Am using find modules to get largest files and its size the file, I am getting a big jason format output, How can i parse one particular string from the output.

I need to fetch only the "path" and "size" values from here. Can anyone help me on this?

---

• hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  become: true
  vars:
  var1: '{{ choice }}'

  var2: '{{ fspath }}'

  gather_facts: true
  tasks:

  • find: paths="/var/log" age="0d" size="1m" patterns=".old,.log" recurse=yes
    register: logfile
    when: var1 == "getLogs"

  • name: "display the big files

  • debug: var=logfile
    =================================================================
    output:

    "logfile": {
    "changed": false,
    "examined": 62,
    "files": [
    {
    "atime": 1492683835.282168,
    "ctime": 1501012553.91998,
    "dev": 51713,
    "gid": 0,
    "inode": 25975339,
    "isblk": false,
    "ischr": false,
    "isdir": false,
    "isfifo": false,
    "isgid": false,
    "islnk": false,
    "isreg": true,
    "issock": false,
    "isuid": false,
    "mode": "0644",
    "mtime": 1501012553.91998,
    "nlink": 1,
    "path": "/var/log/ansible.log",
    "rgrp": true,
    "roth": true,
    "rusr": true,
    "size": 2070175,
    "uid": 0,
    "wgrp": false,
    "woth": false,
    "wusr": true,
    "xgrp": false,
    "xoth": false,
    "xusr": false

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 25. juli 2017 23:03, akku wrote:
> Am using find modules to get largest files and its size the file, I am
> getting a big jason format output, How can i parse one particular string
> from the output.
> I need to fetch only the "path" and "size" values from here. Can anyone
> help me on this?

> ------------------------------
>
> - hosts: localhost

> connection: local
> become: true
> vars:
> var1: '{{ choice }}'var2: '{{ fspath }}'gather_facts: true
> tasks:

> -
>
> find: paths="/var/log" age="0d" size="1m" patterns="*.old,*.log"

> recurse=yes
> register: logfile
> when: var1 == "getLogs"

How, depends on what you are going to do with path and size, so this is
one of several ways.

- debug: msg="{{ item.path }} - {{ item.size }}"
with_items: "{{ logfile.files }}"


--
Kai Stian Olstad

[akku]

yes... with this it prints the path and size along with the whole output.  but  i need only the parsed output.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 26.07.2017 14:03, akku wrote:
> yes... with this it prints the path and size along with the whole
> output.
> but i need only the parsed output.

You don't say what you are going to use this for.
If you would like it in a file, use the template module.

If you would like to have it displayed nice on the screen you are
probably using the wrong tool.
Ansible is not a reporting tool but a configuration management tool.
But you could write your one callback plugin to make the output the way
you want it to be.

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[akku]

The idea is to delete the file..

I need the formatted output, because my associated application is expecting such an input from ansible..

thanks for the info..