There's a bugfix PR for that which I need to test.

You can of course still do this as a shell command too, right now.

What problem are you having at the shell?


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Imran Khan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Again this will save the same value 4 times!
>
>   - name: local action math
>     local_action: shell echo "{{ServerIPRange}}/{{epcrange}}+{{IPOctet}}"
> | bc
>     with_sequence: start=1 end=4
>     register: result
>   - debug: var=resu
>
> On Thursday, August 21, 2014 10:40:56 PM UTC-7, Henry Finucane wrote:
>
>> As an aside, you can do math in Jinja2-
>>
>> - name: bashless math
>>   set_fact:
>>     IPOctet: "{{ 4*(ServerIPRange/epcrange)+IPOctet }}"
>>
>> will do something approaching what you want.
>>
>> If you want to get the actual shell-out working, something like this
>> is going to be enlightening:
>>
>>   - name: local action math
>>     local_action: shell echo "{{ServerIPRange}}/{{epcrange}}+{{IPOctet}}"
>> | bc
>>     with_sequence: start=1 end=4
>>     register: result
>>   - debug: var=result
>>
>> "debug: var=result" will dump a pretty-printed JSON structure, so
>> you'll know what's available, and what you can use. You should try it
>> with & without the with_sequence.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Imran Khan <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I have 3 variables named IPOctet, ServerIPRange and epcrange. If I
>> perform
>> > the following operation in my terminal, it works perfectly
>> >
>> > IPOctet=$(echo "$ServerIPRange/$epcrange+$IPOctet" | bc)
>> >
>> > How to I do something similar in a ansible inside a task, for e.g
>> >
>> > ---
>> > - hosts: localhost
>> >   gather_facts: False
>> >
>> >   vars_prompt:
>> >     - name: epcrange
>> >       prompt: Enter the number of EPCs that you want to configure
>> >       private: False
>> >       default: "1"
>> >     - name: serverrange
>> >       prompt: Enter the number of Cleints that you want to configure
>> >       private: False
>> >       defualt: "1"
>> >     - name: ServerIPRange
>> >       prompt: Enter the ServerIP range
>> >       private: False
>> >       default: '128'
>> >     - name: LastIPOctet
>> >       prompt: Enter The last Octet of the IP you just entered
>> >       private: False
>> >       default: '10'
>> >
>> >   pre_tasks:
>> >
>> >
>> >     - name: Set some facts
>> >       set_fact:
>> >         ServerIP1: "{{ServerIP}}"
>> >         ServerIPRange1: "{{ServerIPRange}}"
>> >         IPOctet: "{{LastIPOctet}}"
>> >
>> >     - name: local action math
>> >       local_action: shell {{IPOctet}}=$(echo
>> > "${{ServerIPRange}}/${{epcrange}}+${{IPOctet}}" | bc)  # Proper
>> Syntax?
>> >       with_sequence: start=1 end=4
>> >       register: result
>> >       ignore_errors: yes
>> >
>> > What is the proper syntax for this command? Maybe using shell echo
>> "......."
>> > . I just need to save the contents of this command into the IPOctet
>> variable
>> > and IPOctet will change with each loop iteration and the results should
>> be
>> > stored in my result register
>> >
>> > P.S: how can I access the individual items in the array sepearately?
>> >
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