I stripped it down to the most basic diff command and made your suggested change, but nothing! I am using ansible version 2.1.2.0 for what it's worth to anyone. It actually generated the diff on the remote, so I am just going to turn on ignore_errors for now :/ Thanks for the help.
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 3:23:52 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > 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/509d2eb7-7e80-4737-a26b-d08aa094f851%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
