On Thursday, 23 August 2018 21.37.34 CEST MPb wrote:
> 
> I have a process that is exporting xml config from an application and the 
> exported xml config contains the server name of the server it was exported 
> from.  
> A grep contains would contain a list of these:
> ./config_1.xml:  <ns:serverName>myservername.dom.com</ns:serverName>
> ./config_2.xml:  <ns:serverName>myservername.dom.com</ns:serverName>
> 
> I want to make them via an ansible task:
> ./config_1.xml:  <ns:serverName>{{ gold_server_conf }}</ns:serverName>
> ./config_2.xml:  <ns:serverName>{{ gold_server_conf }}</ns:serverName>
> 
> Something like this?? is wrong because Ansible will just think {{ 
> gold_server_conf }} is a variable.. but i want it to treat it just as text 
> 
>  - name: template out the server name
>    shell:
>       sed -i 's/{{ ansible_hostname }}/{{ gold_server_conf }}/g' *

When in doubt try escaping :-)

  - name: template out the server name
    shell:
      sed -i 's/{{ ansible_hostname }}/\{\{ gold_server_conf \}\}/g' *


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Kai Stian Olstad


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