On 7/6/20 3:32 PM, Srinivas Naram wrote:
> Hello Jenisha,
> 
> Assuming that you are getting this value from /etc/passwd., try to change you 
> command
> 
>  tail -1 /etc/passwd | awk '{split($0,a,":"); print a[1]}'
> 

cut -d : -f 1 is more concise and readable than your awk command.

Otherwise I would really like to know why Jenisha resorts to reading the 
password file.

Regards
         racke


> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 6:35 PM Dick Visser <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     you should either use set_fact, or register. Both doesn't make sense.
> 
>     On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 13:44, Jenisha T <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi
>     > Could you pls help me with the splitting value from the list. I need to 
> extract first value anil before ('':')
>     >
>     >  grep_atm.stdout_lines output below
>     >
>     > ok: [localhost] => {
>     >     "msg": "anil:x:500:500:Anil:/home/anil:/bin/bash
>     > "
>     > }
>     >
>     > I tried,
>     > - set_fact:
>     >        user_name: "{{ grep_atm.stdout_lines }}"
>     >         register: user_name.split(':')[0]
>     >  - debug:
>     >         var: user_name.split(':')[0]
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