Maybe http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/lineinfile_module.html will help?
[wani@linux tmp ]$ cat /tmp/a
<value1> <text1>
<value2> <text2>
<value3> <text1>
[wani@linux tmp ]$ cat a.yaml
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- lineinfile:
path: /tmp/a
regexp: "^<value1> <text1>"
state: absent
- lineinfile:
path: /tmp/a
regexp: "^<value3> <text1>"
line: "<valuex> <text1>"
[wani@linux tmp ]$ ansible-playbook a.yaml
[WARNING]: Host file not found: /etc/ansible/hosts
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available
PLAY [localhost]
****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts]
**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [lineinfile]
***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [localhost]
TASK [lineinfile]
***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [localhost]
PLAY RECAP
**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=3 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0
[wani@linux tmp ]$ cat /tmp/a
<value2> <text2>
<valuex> <text1>
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Suresh Grandhi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking to replace or delete redundant lines in a file at different
> line numbers.
>
> For example, a file has the following content
>
> <value1> <text1>
> <value2> <text2>
> <value3> <text1>
>
> In this case, I want to remove <value1> <text1> and replace <value3>
> <text1> with <valuex> <text1>.
> Is there a possibility to do this in Ansible?
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