Hi Olstad,
Thanks for your quick answer.
I have tried the lookup before and it throws some error related to utf-8.
That is why I had to use slurp.
Indeed, the file to decode is a .gz file which is received through SCP in a
base64 encoded format.
"msg": "An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin
'file'. Error was a <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>, original
message: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start
byte"
Regards
Karim
Le mer. 2 oct. 2019 à 13:30, Kai Stian Olstad <
ansible-project+l...@olstad.com> a écrit :
> On 02.10.2019 09:43, T Karim wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using the slurp module to retrieve and decode a binary file.
> > However,
> > I am getting wrong output with binary starting with 1F EF BD instead of
> > what I have in a decoded file with other tools: 1F 8B 08
> >
> > - name: Read backup file content
> > slurp:
> > src: "/tmp/{{ file }}"
> > register: slurp_result
> > delegate_to: localhost
> >
> > - name: Define file content
> > set_fact:
> > content: "{{slurp_result.content | b64decode }}"
>
> The filter b64decode doesn't support binary data, only ASCII.
>
> Since you are getting the file from localhost you can use lookup plugin
> file.
>
> {{ lookup('file', '/tmp/' ~ file) }}
>
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