Did you try this ?
user_name: "{{ my_string[0].split(':')[0] }}"
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:52 AM Karl Auer <[email protected]> wrote:
> so what's wrong with:
>
> USR="jenisha"
> FOUND=`grep $USR /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1`
> if [ -z "$FOUND" ] ; then
> echo "No such user: $USR"
> else
> # do whatever...
> fi
>
> ?
>
> Regards, K.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 3:11 PM T. JENISHA <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In my case cut doesn't work. I m searching for a particular user from a
>> password.
>> $ grep anil /etc/passwd
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Jenisha T
>> Whatsapp: +91 07598087866
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 19:50, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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