On 27. sep. 2017 00:55, rurpy via Ansible Project wrote:
Hello,
I am new to Ansible and trying to see if it fits my needs but quickly ran
into the following problem:
$ ansible ubtest -m shell -a 'echo -n "line 1\nline 2" >/tmp/foo'
/tmp/foo is created with one line containing the two characters
"\" and "n" in the middle rather than a single linefeed ("\n")
character as I want and expected.
I apologize in advance if this has an obvious solution; I have just started
with Ansible and there is a lot of material in the documentation but I
didn't see anything addressing this immediately, nor did google turn up
anything encouraging. I'm hoping there is some filter or other simple way
to produce the desired results.
I can't confirm this behavior against Kubuntu, in my test I get to lines
in the file.
In Ansible shell is using /bin/sh, on Kubuntu /bin/sh is a link to dash.
Since echo is a builtin on most shells if not all shell, they may differ
some. So it depends on you distribution and what /bin/sh is actually
running.
To avoid this problem you could use the Ansible's copy module instead
ansible ubtest -m copy -a 'dest=/tmp/foo content="line 1\nline 2"'
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Kai Stian Olstad
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