Nevermind. I used shell: instead of command: and it runs.
On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 1:11:22 PM UTC-4, Jerry Eidson wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I've been working with Ansible a few weeks. I am trying to create a list
> of yum file updates. I ordinarily run
> "sudo yum update --assume --changelog | tee /tmp/hostname | cut -d'.'
> -f1`.txt"
> to get the update list created in the tmp directory.
>
> In the play book I have this:
> - name: create yum update list on server
> command: yum update --assumeno --changelog | tee /tmp/`hostname | cut
> -d'.' -f1`.txt
>
>
> Partial output i get is:
> fatal: [rvavpmgt02.asd.local]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["yum",
> "update", "--assumeno", "--changelog", "|", "tee", "/tmp/`hostname", "|",
> "cut", "-d.", "-f1`.txt"], "delta": "0:00:00.115751", "end": "2017-08-29
> 13:06:19.590748", "failed": true, "rc": 1, "start": "2017-08-29
> 13:06:19.474997", "stderr": "CRITICAL:yum.cli:Command line error: option
> -d: invalid integer value: '.'", "stderr_lines": ["CRITICAL:yum.cli:Command
> line error: option -d: invalid integer value: '.'"], "stdout": "Usage: yum
> [options] COMMAND\n\nList of Commands:\n\ncheck
>
> I've have tried surrounding the command with double and have also tried
> singe quotes to no avail. Not sure how to format.
>
> Any Advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - jerry
>
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