Let me take that back - it's because it's JSON. It would not be valid JSON if it were not.
Sorry, this is what you're pretty much going to have here, unless we teach debug to have an format=yaml option or something, which I'd be ok with. But even then, YAML needs hints and might get it wrong. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > That's because they are escaped newlines, versus real newlines, I'm > suspecting. > > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:51 PM, AJ Daws <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Unfortunately that still shows escaped newline characters so isn't any >> more readable. For example: >> >> TASK: [ec2-launcher-v2 | debug var=cloudinit_user_data] >> *********************** >> ok: [localhost] => { >> "cloudinit_user_data": "#cloud-config\nusers:\n - name: core\n >> ssh-authorized-keys:\n - ssh-rsa AAAA..." >> >> >> On Monday, 15 September 2014 14:32:43 UTC-7, James Cammarata wrote: >>> >>> Hi AJ, >>> >>> Using "- debug: var=cloudinit_user_data" will show you the >>> pretty-printed version of the var, without any escaped values, though you >>> won't be able to control the indentation of that data. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:55 PM, AJ Daws <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a large, multi-line string that I would like to output in a >>>> role. Currently I'm using the debug module like this: >>>> >>>> - name: Cloud-init user_data >>>> debug: >>>> msg: "{{ cloudinit_user_data|indent(6) }}" >>>> >>>> However this generates JSON output which is quite hard to read as >>>> newlines are represented as "\n" rather than an actual new line. Is there >>>> a simple way to simply output a string as-is? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>>> msgid/ansible-project/ea53aba8-c5c4-449b-875d- >>>> 8440606426bc%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/ea53aba8-c5c4-449b-875d-8440606426bc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6aad5e54-d5ae-46ac-a08e-153591f35b95%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6aad5e54-d5ae-46ac-a08e-153591f35b95%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgxXGBSK7KqAv%3DN%3DmAJkH%3DerTNifPprbFfr3v2QWtqZNvg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
