Hello -
I solved a similar problem before by following a suggestion on the shell
module <http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/shell_module.html> page.
To sanitize any variables passed to the shell module, you should use “{{
> var | quote }}” instead of just “{{ var }}” to make sure they don’t include
> evil things like semicolons.
Based on the _raw_params in the verbose output, your variables do contain
hyphens, colons, etc. Ansible might be interpreting these as something you
don't want.
Maybe. Give it a shot. :)
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 5:08:35 PM UTC-6, colin byrne wrote:
>
> I am trying to use the shell module to generate a diff between two remote
> files, but it is erring out without giving me a warning or error:
>
> - name: create diff of old settings file and new settings file
> shell: diff /home/deploy/{{ application_name
> }}/shared/config/settings.yml /home/deploy/{{ application_name
> }}/shared/config/settings.yml.ansible_old_version >> /home/deploy/{{
> application_name }}/shared/config/settings.yml_diffs_1
> when: settings_file.changed
>
>
> It executes totally fine when run directly in a shell on the remote
> machine...
>
> Here is the verbose error output, which doesn't seem to give much of use:
>
> Thanks for any help or workaround! I've spent too much time on this...
>
> fatal: [staging]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": "diff
> /home/deploy/app_name/shared/config/settings.yml
> /home/deploy/app_name/shared/config/settings.yml.ansible_old_version
> >
> /home/deploy/coverhound/shared/config/settings.yml_diffs/settings.yml_2016-11-30_14:45:54",
>
> "delta": "0:00:00.002778", "end": "2016-11-30 14:45:57.198400", "failed":
> true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"_raw_params": "diff
> /home/deploy/coverhound/shared/config/settings.yml
> /home/deploy/app_name/shared/config/settings.yml.ansible_old_version >
> /home/deploy/app_name/shared/config/settings.yml_diffs/settings.yml_2016-11-30_14:45:54",
>
> "_uses_shell": true, "chdir": null, "creates": null, "executable":
> "/bin/bash", "removes": null, "warn": true}, "module_name": "command"},
> "rc": 1, "start": "2016-11-30 14:45:57.195622", "stderr": "", "stdout": "",
> "stdout_lines": [], "warnings": []}
>
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ansible Project" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/da9e1f6c-a45c-49a1-83af-8e88898ec140%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
