On 5/4/20 6:12 PM, Dick Visser wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Not sure what "eliminate the entire child path lines" means - is that
> some local jargon?
> Giving actual preferred output would avoid us doing any guestimations
> and/or (mis)interpretations of said jargon.
> 
> Either way, yes you're using ansible, but just it's 'shell' module as
> a conveyor mechanism to execute a lot of piped shell commands.
> I would suggest adding a few extra.
> If any, this would avoid you dividing the text processing between the
> shell and ansible.
> 
> Dick

I agree, this is not related to Ansible proper. And I'm also sure that this 
shell command is way too complicated.

Regards
         Racke

> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 13:40, Sivaraman P <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have used the below play to display the files and folders with some pattern
>>
>> - name: Display backup files
>>   shell: "du -h {{partition}} --time | sort -rh | grep -o -P 
>> '(.*bk|.*bkup|.*bak|.*backup|.*logs' | sort -rh | awk -F'\t' '{print 
>> $3}'|uniq|head -n 100"
>>   register: status
>>
>>
>> and while using this command i am getting output as below which i have 
>> stored in register variable called status
>>
>> 7.4G 2018-12-24 03:46 /logs/backups
>> 6.4G 2018-12-24 03:46 /logs/backups/config_bkp_11dec
>> 7.4G 2018-12-24 03:46 /logs/backups/config_bkp_18nov
>>
>> The thing is i need to eliminate the entire child path lines amd need to 
>> hold the parent path /logs/backups... is there anyway to do that...
>>
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