You want to use a lookup:
vars:
users: "{{ lookup('file', '/home/dalton/users.txt') }}"
tasks:
- name: Template out
template:
src: roles/sys/templates/users.j2
dest: /opt/users.dat
backup: yes
Your template would then look like:
Section1:
Section2:
{% for name in users.splitlines() %}
user= {{ name }}, task=shuffle
{% endfor %}
Section3:
Dick
On 23 May 2017 at 21:24, 'Dalton Porter' via Ansible Project
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a list of items in a text file that need to go into a specific
> location in the output file.
>
> The text file is one item per line:
> user1
> user2
> ...
>
> The output file looks like
> Section1:
>
> Section2:
> user=user1, task=shuffle
> user=user2, task=shuffle
> ...
> Section3:
> ----------------
> I'm using ansible templates to do this.
> - name: configure users
> template: src=roles/sys/templates/users.j2 dest=/opt/users.dat backup=yes
>
>
>
> I need the users to go in section 2. I've tried things like this but I
> can't find what works yet.
>
> In the j2 file:
> Section1:
> Section2:
> {% for name in item %}
> user= {{name}} , task=shuffle
> {% endfor %}
> Section3:
>
> How should I read in the users from the file? Store the file data in what?
> How do I then feed that to the template so that the for loop works?
>
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