On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 10:32:41 AM UTC-7, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
>
>
Now, whether escaped or not it says it can't find the file. Do I need to
delegate_to in set_fact? or should it be looking on the host specified?
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