Ansible merge multiple files.

[Eric Marquez]

Hello, I have a number of templates that are generated by Ansible but I need them combined into a single file. Is there a way to do this without having to do a shell command "file1 >> newFile.txt"

For example I have 4 files and I need to merge the content from these 4 source files to a single destination file.

File1 > dest.txt
File2 >> dest.txt
File3 >> dest.txt
File4 >> dest.txt

In my case these 4 files were generated by Ansible Templates. Since I have a vars file that is a data dictionary it creates multiple files. From these multiple files I need to merge them into a single file. I looked at lineinfile but I'm not saving a single line but 50 - 100 lines.
Is there a better way to do this other than using shell commands?

[Brian Coca]

tempalate can do this via includes, but you also have the assemble module.

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[Eric Marquez]

Is there an example of how you might use includes with template?

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[Brian Coca]

here are the jinja docs about it:

http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#include

 

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Brian Coca

[Eric Marquez]

Assemble worked, thanks for the help.

 

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here are the jinja docs about it:

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