OK, it's working now. Thanks!
become: true
become_user: root
tasks:
- block:
#- debug:
# msg: "riga {{item}}"
- include_tasks: user.yml
when: item | search(":")
with_items: [ "abc:/home/def", "ghi:/home/jkh"]
But as noted by floweryoursong...
Il giorno lunedì 26 febbraio 2018 15:38:58 UTC, Kai Stian Olstad ha scritto:
>
> On Monday, 26 February 2018 15.39.09 CET Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > HI,
> > can I combine when: and with_items clauses as in this example?
> >
> > become: true
> > become_user: root
> > tasks:
> > - block:
> > - debug:
> > msg: "riga {{item}}"
> > - user:
> > name: "{{ item.split(':')[0] }}"
> > home: "{{ item.split(':')[1] }}"
> > when: item search(":")
> > with_items: [ "abc:def", "yyy.zzz"]
> >
> > The sad output is the following, indicating that "item" is undefined in
> > the loop.
>
> when is executing before the loop so that's the reason this will not work.
>
>
> > TASK [debug]
> >
> ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>
>
> > fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with
> an
> > undefined variable. The error was: 'item' is undefined\n\nThe error
> appears
> > to have been in '/home/nico2601/block.yml': line 25, column 9, but
> may\nbe
> > elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe
> > offending line appears to be:\n\n - block:\n - debug:\n ^
> > here\n\nexception type: <class
> > 'ansible.errors.AnsibleUndefinedVariable'>\nexception: 'item' is
> undefined"}
> > to retry, use: --limit @/home/nico2601/block.retry
> >
> >
> > What I want to do is ensuring that the user before the : is set only
> when
> > the string that I'm looping over does contain :
> > What's the right way to do it?
>
> If you but the user code in a file and use include_tasks it will work.
>
> user.yml
> ---
> - user:
> name: "{{ item.split(':')[0] }}"
> home: "{{ item.split(':')[1] }}"
>
> Then replace the user in block with include_tasks
>
> - include_tasks: user.yml
> with_items: [ "abc:def", "yyy.zzz"]
>
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
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