You should probably try using {{ redis.stdout }}. Registered variables are
not inherently strings, unlike extra_vars.
Regards
On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 11:42:29 AM UTC+5:30, Mona Gopal wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I figured out that the below works to append to a file,
>
> - name: Write redis details to file
> local_action: lineinfile dest={{ third_party_dest_path }} line=redis
> state=present create=yes
>
> However, i am unable to append the registered variable value to the file
>
> - name: Write redis details to file
> local_action: lineinfile dest={{ third_party_dest_path }} *line="{{
> redis }}"* state=present create=yes
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 10:36:33 AM UTC+5:30, Mona Gopal wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to use the lineinfile module to append some of the software
>> details to a file.
>> I don't want to match to any regexp, but just insert every software
>> details at the EOF.
>>
>>
>> Below is the piece of code.
>>
>> - name: Collect python details
>> action: get_python_details
>> register: python
>>
>> - name: Write registered variable to file
>> local_action: lineinfile dest={{ third_party_dest_path }} line={{
>> python }} regexp="" insertafter=EOF state=present create=yes
>>
>> Have also tried giving regexp="^$", regexp="^\s*$" as well to match to
>> an empty line, but throws the below error.
>>
>> Error:
>>
>> An exception occurred during task execution. The full traceback is:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File
>> "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1465888759.41-82910653497853/lineinfile",
>> line 2540, in <module>
>> main()
>> File
>> "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1465888759.41-82910653497853/lineinfile",
>> line 371, in main
>> ins_aft, ins_bef, create, backup, backrefs)
>> File
>> "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1465888759.41-82910653497853/lineinfile",
>> line 266, in present
>> lines.append(line + os.linesep)
>> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'dict' and 'str'
>>
>> fatal: [172.19.3.60 -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed":
>> true, "invocation": {"module_name": "lineinfile"}, "parsed": false}
>>
>>
>> Kindly help on how to go about appending to EOF without matching to any
>> regexp.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Mona G
>>
>>
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