I think what you'd want to do here is use the shell module to check for the
regex with grep, emphasis on "I think". You could also use the exit code,
since grep exits with a 0 when it matches lines, 1 if no match is found.
This is probably easier.
- name: Check if file has Fred
shell: grep 'fred' /path/to/file
register: grep
- name: Do this if we find Fred
debug: msg="We found Fred"
when: grep.stdout
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Peter Leggett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can i execute a ansible task only if a file contains a specfic regexp ?
> I was hoping to use the when: statement as follows :-
>
> - name: do this task only if file contains fred
> command: some command
> when: file contains "fred"
>
> Can something like this work ? Thanks for any help.
>
> Pete
>
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