Because I would rather use jinja2 than piping through a bunch of shell
commands:
- name: Run java -version
command: java -version
register: java_version_out
changed_when: false
- name: Set java_version var
set_fact: java_version="{{
java_version_out.stderr.splitlines()[0]|regex_replace('[^\d.]+', '') }}"
- debug: var=java_version
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:21 PM, John Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to register a variable with my java version. I can get that with:
>
> java -version 2>&1 | head -1 | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\"" } ; { print $2 }'
>
> That gives me the result I want: 1.8.0_45
>
> But I cannot make this happen in ansible :-( I'm going crazy with quotes
> and escapes. I've tried:
>
> - name: Get java version
> shell: >
> java -version 2>&1 | head -1 | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\"" } ; { print
> $2 }'
> register: java_ver
>
> and:
>
> - name: Get java version
> command: "{{ item }}"
> with_items:
> - java -version 2>&1 | head -1 | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\"" } ; { print
> $2 }'
> register: java_ver
>
> as well as trying various combinations of quotes and escape characters. I
> just can't get the right recipe.
>
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