copying setup module output to file fails

[Pratik Dhandharia]

Hi All,

I have a simple ansible script that is trying to gather info using the setup module and copying that information onto a temp file. Here is what my script looks like:

- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: gather info
    setup:
    register: info
  - name: copy info
    copy: content="{{ info  }}" dest=/tmp/info_test.log

When I run this script, I get the following error:

fatal: [localhost] => error parsing argument string 'content="{ .........
                                            .............................                              // Json formatted information registered in the info variable
                                            ......}} " dest=/tmp/info_test.log', try quoting the entire line.

Is there any other way of capturing the info produced by setup module, and store it in a file?

Also does this seems to be a bug in the copy module? I feel this is failing because the json output is not formatted correctly.

Any help is appreciated.

[Brian Coca]

use a template instead, copy's content is not designed to handle complex data




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Brian Coca

[Pratik Dhandharia]

That threw same error.

I was wondering if there is a direct way of copying/saving output of setup module to a file.

[Pratik Dhandharia]

So I figured out the issue.

This was an environment issue as an environment variable http_proxy was set starting with value '{#'

Hence ansible was not able to parse the json formatted string.

[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

ansible -m setup server > file ?
Perhaps, you should explain what you want to do, instead of what you're trying to do technically

Regards,

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[Brian Coca]

ansible -m setup -t /directory all <= this will create a file with
jsonified output for each server queried



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