I'm looking for a reasonable way to insert a block of lines into a certain
position within a file hopefully 'without' needing to template the
destination file.
I have a config file that I need to insert multiple lines into.
[SectionA]
... many lines below here ...
[SectionB]
... many more lines below here...
[SectionC]
... and so on...
What I'm trying to do is insert a block of lines just above the 'SectionB'
line.
[SectionA]
... many lines below here ...
* [[subsectionX]]*
* HTML_ROOT = /path/here*
* [[subsectionY]]*
* HTML_ROOT = /path/here*
[SectionB]
... many more lines below here...
[SectionC]
... and so on...
I tried a 'with_items' approach ala:
- name: insert the lines
lineinfile: dest=/config/file/path line="{{ item }}"
insertbefore='[SectionB]'
with_items:
- " [[subsectionX]]"
- " HTML_ROOT = /path/here"
- " [[subsectionY]]"
- " HTML_ROOT = /path/here"
This struck me as a bit of a kludge, and it failed anyway as ansible only
adds the first 'HTML_ROOT =" line into the file, and does not add the
second one (being a little too smart for its own good)
Is there a preferred way to do this kind of stuff ?
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