Error clearly says to use proper quotes
‘netstat -nautp |grep -iE "137|389|445|636" |awk '{print $5}' |cut -d: -f2
|grep -iwE "137|389|445|636"’
Save it in Regiter
Use set_facts to store as a variable
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 8:31 AM, Veera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying the below snippet to detect the established ports. but
> Ansible throws an error.
>
> - name: List the port connections
> shell: "netstat -nautp |grep -iE "137|389|445|636" |awk '{print
> $5}' |cut -d: -f2 |grep -iwE "137|389|445|636"
> register: dc_stat
> debug:
> var: dc_stat.stdout_lines
>
> this through's the error
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
>
> - name: List the port connections
> shell: netstat -nautp |grep -iE "137|389|445|636" |awk '{print $5}'
> |cut -d: -f2 |grep -iwE "137|389|445|636"
>
> ^ here
> We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
> unbalanced quotes. If starting a value with a quote, make sure the
> line ends with the same set of quotes. For instance this arbitrary
> example:
>
>
> foo: "bad" "wolf"
>
>
> Could be written as:
>
>
> foo: '"bad" "wolf"'
>
>
>
> I tried inserted a " " for the shell commands and using vars/pipe also
> ..
> How can i direct the output of "netstat -nautp |grep -iE "137|389|445|636"
> |awk '{print $5}' |cut -d: -f2 |grep -iwE "137|389|445|636"" to a
> variable ?
>
> Or do we have to use backslash(\) as in shell ?
>
>
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