Thanks Jon, this solved my issue. I didn't know about this convertto-Json
thing and it seems to be very useful. The only problem is the raw module
which would still require lot of string operations to find the desired
value.
Using "Get-PsDrive C |select-object Free|ConvertTo-json", i get the value
in Ansible like this:
TASK [debug]
*******************************************************************
ok: [AC05] => {
"drive | to_json": {
"changed": false,
"rc": 0,
"stderr": "",
"stdout": "{\r\n \"Free\": 38710173696\r\n}\r\n",
"stdout_lines": [
"{",
" \"Free\": 38710173696",
"}"
]
}
}
This is still not very useful. So i used *from_json* to parse the output.
- debug: var="(drive.stdout | from_json).Free"
and thus got the output in proper format:
TASK [debug]
*******************************************************************
ok: [AC05] => {
"(drive.stdout | from_json).Free": "38709694464"
}
On Wednesday, 13 July 2016 18:01:11 UTC+5:30, J Hawkesworth wrote:
>
> Try something like this:
>
> Get-PsDrive C |select-object Free|ConvertTo-json
>
> You should then be able to use 'register' to capture the result and make
> use of it.
>
> By the way I found this which has a lot of good starting points for
> converting unix toolbox commands into powershell
> https://www.gitbook.com/book/devopscollective/a-unix-person-s-guide-to-powershell/details
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 12:06:44 PM UTC+1, ishan jain wrote:
>>
>> I am trying very hard to get a numerical value of free disk space on a
>> windows server 2012 R2 machine, but couldn't get it so far. All the
>> commands that are available for listing the disk space information - they
>> are not providing the output in proper format. Here are a few commands i
>> tried:
>>
>> *raw: Get-PSDrive C | Select-Object Free*
>>
>> *Output:*
>>
>> TASK [debug]
>> *******************************************************************
>> ok: [AC05] => {
>> "freeSpace": {
>> "changed": false,
>> "rc": 0,
>> "stderr": "",
>> "stdout": "\r\n
>> Free\r\n
>> ----\r\n
>> 53051551744\r\n\r\n\r\n",
>> "stdout_lines": [
>> "",
>> "
>> Free",
>> "
>> ----",
>> "
>> 53051551744",
>> "",
>> ""
>> ]
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> *raw: fsutil volume diskfree C: | find /i "avail free bytes"*
>>
>> *output:*
>>
>> TASK [debug]
>> *******************************************************************
>> ok: [AC05] => {
>> "drive": {
>> "changed": false,
>> "rc": 0,
>> "stderr": "",
>> "stdout": "Total # of avail free bytes : 53056536576\r\n",
>> "stdout_lines": [
>> "Total # of avail free bytes : 53056536576"
>> ]
>> }
>> }
>>
>> wmic logicaldisk get size
>>
>> output: (no way of getting info for single drive)
>>
>> Size
>>
>> 63899168768
>>
>> 53683941376
>>
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>>
>> As you can see, there really doesn't seems to be a way of knowing the
>> exact numerical value of free disk space in windows machine. Anybody doing
>> this without using any external utility ?
>>
>
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