On Monday, 3 December 2018 15:03:54 CET 'Ansible Madness' via Ansible Project
wrote:
>
> 1) run a shell command (ok this one is easy), it will return a list of
> values in the format of:
>
> A B C D
> D E F G
>
> 2) now i want to match a line with a value and return the value of a
> DIFFERENT column.. so using the above, i want to match F but return the
> value of column 1 (in the example this would be "D") as a variable that i
> can use further in the playbook.
> (matching the search value is easy to get a true or false however i am
> perplexed how to do this the ansible way)
>
> In pure linux i could hack this with a grep of "F" and awk out the column i
> want, but trying to not do everything with the shell module if i dont need
> to.
Parsing string/text in Ansible is not trivial as you would need a lot more code
to do it.
Since you already running shell piping it through awk '{if ($3 == "F") print
$1}' is a lot easier.
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Kai Stian Olstad
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