On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:21:23 CET John Harmon wrote:
> Perhaps I am doing this wrong, but it doesn't like my syntax. If I escape
> the backslash ('\\w+.img') it tries to run but with a different error:
> - name: Find virtual Disks
> set_fact:
> virt_disks: "{{ lookup('file','/var/ftp/vm.cfg') |
> regex_findall('\w+.img') }}"
>
> Result:
> ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
> found unknown escape character
>
> The error appears to have been in
> '/etc/ansible/playbooks/one-offs/sanitize_vm.yml': line 21, column 75, but
> may
> be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
> set_fact:
> virt_disks: "{{ lookup('file','/var/ftp/vm.cfg') |
> regex_findall('\w+.img') }}"
<snip />
>
>
> I find the error strange on the last one, because I stat the file previous
> to it and can see it fine.
In your set_fact, try to swap your single quotes to double quotes and you
double to single quotes.
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Kai Stian Olstad
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