Thanks for this, that's a nice trick. I have a feeling there ought to be a
simpler way of doing it but haven't thought what that might be yet.
Jon
On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 7:27:10 AM UTC+1, ishan jain wrote:
>
> 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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