Thanks Vinoth. It worked
Yes . I learnt that we can use the formatting as in python either with ' '
or " ".
On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 8:59:32 AM UTC+5:30, vinoth kumar wrote:
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>
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> On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 8:57 AM, vinoth kumar <vinod...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Error clearly says to use proper quotes
>> This would be fine i think so
>> “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 <svee...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
>> 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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