I'm trying to loop through a list of lines and write the lines to a file.
- command: "{{ item }}"
with_items:
- ls
- df -h
register: files
- lineinfile:
line: "{{ item.stdout }}"
path: /home/ubuntu/log/list.log
create: yes
loop: "{{ files.results | flatten }}"
loop_control:
label: item.stdout
But I am seeing below error:
'PermissionError' object is not subscriptable
I modified code as per #toydarian suggestion and working fine. if I have multiple tasks, I have changed as follows:
- command: "{{ item }}"
loop:
- "ls"
- "df -h"
register: files
- command: "{{ item }}"
loop:
- "ls -lrt"
- "du -h"
register: files1
- lineinfile:
line: "{{ item.stdout }}"
path: /home/ubuntu/log/list.log
create: yes
loop:
- "{{ files.results }}"
- "{{ files1.results }}"
delegate_to: localhost
I can see below error:
"The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'list object' has no attribute"
You have a small error in your loop. You can loop over files.results and then use {{ item.stdout }} as line:
- command: "{{ item }}"
loop:
- "ls"
- "df -h"
register: files
- command: "{{ item }}"
loop:
- "ls -lrt"
- "du -h"
register: files1
- lineinfile:
line: "{{ item.stdout }}"
path: /home/ubuntu/log/list.log
create: yes
loop: "{{ files.results + files1.results }}"
Check the documentation on registering variables with a loop.
Note:
Depending on what you want to do, you might want to consider using ansible modules (e.g. find) instead of running things in command or shell tasks.
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i got following pb to add multiple lines to chrony.conf
- name: add line
lineinfile:
backup: no
backrefs: no
state: present
path: "{{ file_path }}"
insertafter: "{{ line.replace_with }}"
line: "{{ line.line_to_add }}"
with_items:
- { search: "{{ line.replace_with }}", add: "{{ line.line_to_add }}" }
in my vars files I got it like this
line:
line_to_add:
- "server ntp1.domain.com iburst"
- "server ntp2.domain.com iburst"
- "server ntp3.domain.com iburst"
but the change put all 3 ntp servers in one line instead of 3.
any idea?
when i change my yml to
- name: add line
lineinfile:
backup: no
backrefs: no
state: present
path: "{{ file_path }}"
#regexp: '^(\s*)[#]?{{ item.search }}(: )*'
insertafter: "{{ line.replace_with }}"
line: "{{ item }}"
create: true
loop: "{{ line.line_to_add }}"
with_items:
- { search: "{{ line.replace_with }}", add: "{{ line.line_to_add }}" }
I get suplicate loop in task: items
You can use loop for this to iterate each line in the line.line_to_add variable. I also assumed that you have another line.replace_with variable.
- name: Example of multiple lines
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
vars:
line:
line_to_add:
- "server ntp1.domain.com iburst"
- "server ntp2.domain.com iburst"
- "server ntp3.domain.com iburst"
replace_with:
- test_line
tasks:
- name: add line
lineinfile:
backup: no
backrefs: no
state: present
path: test_file
insertafter: "{{ line.replace_with }}"
line: "{{ item }}"
create: true
loop: "{{ line.line_to_add }}"
Gives:
server ntp1.domain.com iburst
server ntp2.domain.com iburst
server ntp3.domain.com iburst
I am performing a grep with multiple items.
---
- hosts: my_host
gather_facts: false
vars:
my_list:
- whatever
- something
tasks:
- name: grep for item in search path
shell: "grep -rIL {{ item }} /tmp"
register: the_grep
loop: "{{ my_list }}"
- debug:
msg: "{{ item.stdout_lines }}"
loop: "{{ the_grep.results }}"
Depending on the result, multiple files could match.
msg:
- /tmp/something.conf
- /tmp/folder/file.txt
Q: How would I configure Ansible to loop over the items in stdout_lines?
The use case I'm solving is to delete .ini sections based on the item, but in this case, Ansible doesn't loop over the stdout_lines.
- name: remove stanza from ini file
ini_file:
path: "{{ item.stdout_lines }}"
section: "{{ item.item }}"
mode: '0600'
state: absent
loop: "{{ the_grep.results }}"
when: item.stdout_lines | length > 0
It seems that this doesn't work, but configuring item.stdout_lines[0] gives the partially expected result, since Ansible will use only the first item in that list. But ofc, not the 2nd and so on.
Perhaps there's a prettier answer, but solved it by using with_nested and creating a json_query:
- name: remove stanza from ini file
ini_file:
path: "{{ item.0 }}"
section: "{{ item.1.item }}"
mode: '0600'
state: absent
with_nested:
- "{{ the_grep | json_query('results[].stdout_lines[]') }}"
- "{{ the_grep.results }}"
I have several files that I need to backup in different directories. I have tried the code below and not working for me.
vars:
file_vars:
- {name: /file1}
- {name: /etc/file2}
- {name: /etc/file/file3}
tasks:
- name: "Checking if config files exists"
stat:
path: "{{ item.name }}"
with_items: "{{ file_vars }}"
register: stat_result
- name: Backup Files
copy: src={{ item.name }} dest={{ item.name }}{{ ansible_date_time.date }}.bak
with_items: "{{ file_vars }}"
remote_src: yes
when: stat_result.stat.exists == True
The problem is the condition
when: stat_result.stat.exists == True
There is no attribute stat_result.stat. Instead, the attribute stat_result.results is a list of the results from the loop. It's possible to create a dictionary of files and their statuses. For example
- set_fact:
files_stats: "{{ dict(my_files|zip(my_stats)) }}"
vars:
my_files: "{{ stat_result.results|json_query('[].item.name') }}"
my_stats: "{{ stat_result.results|json_query('[].stat.exists') }}"
Then simply use this dictionary in the condition
when: files_stats[item.name]
Below is a shorter version which creates the dictionary more efficiently
- set_fact:
files_stats: "{{ dict(stat_result.results|
json_query('[].[item.name, stat.exists]')) }}"
Please try using below worked for me:
---
- name: Copy files
hosts: localhost
become: yes
become_user: root
vars_files:
- files.yml
tasks:
- name: "Checking if config files exists"
stat:
path: "{{ item }}"
with_items: "{{ files }}"
register: stat_result
- name: Ansible
debug:
msg: "{{ stat_result }}"
- name: Backup Files
copy:
src: "{{ item }}"
dest: "{{ item.bak }}"
with_items: "{{ files }}"
when: stat_result == "True"
and files.yml will look like:
---
files:
- /tmp/file1
- /tmp/file2
you can check you playbook syntax using below command:
ansible-playbook copy.yml --syntax-check
Also you do dry run your playbook before actual execution.
ansible-playbook -i localhost copy.yml --check
I've write ansible-playbook to collect the result from many network devices. Below playbook is working fine. But if I have to collect result with lot of commands. Let say 20 commands, I've to create the many task to write the results into file in my playbook.
For now, I manually create the tasks to write to logs into file. Below is example with 3 commands.
- name: run multiple commands and evaluate the output
hosts: <<network-host>>
gather_facts: no
connection: local
vars:
datetime: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'date +%Y%m%d%H') }}"
backup_dir: "/backup/"
cli:
host: "{{ ansible_host }}"
username: <<username>>
password: <<password>>
tasks:
- sros_command:
commands:
- show version
- show system information
- show port
provider: "{{ cli }}"
register: result
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show version\n{{ result.stdout[0] }}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show system information\n{{ result.stdout[1] }}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show port\n{{ cmd_result.stdout[2] }}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
Is it possible to loop commands and result within one task?
Please kindly advice.
Thanks
try this one task alone in place above three tasks..
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show {{ item.command }}\n{{ cmd_result.stdout{{ item.outnum }} }}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
with_items:
- { command: version, outnum: [0] }
- { command: system information, outnum: [1] }
- { command: port, outnum: [2] }
Below playbook is worked for me
- name: Writing output
local_action:
module: lineinfile
dest: "{{ backup_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}-{{ datetime }}.txt"
line: "{{ inventory_hostname }}:# show {{ item.command }}\n{{ item.cmdoutput}}"
create: yes
changed_when: False
with_items:
- { command: "version", cmdoutput: "{{ cmd_result.stdout[0] }}" }
- { command: "system information", cmdoutput: "{{ cmd_result.stdout[1] }}" }
- { command: "port", cmdoutput: "{{ cmd_result.stdout[2] }}" }
I have to find all config.xml on a server and produce the list on a given server.
Once we registered the files list, i have to check the content in each file on the list using Ansible
I tried to derive the paths for all config.xml
register them and print the list
Added the registered variable into lineinfile path
##Derive Config.xml path
- name: Find the location of xml file
shell: find {{ wlx_mount_point }} -maxdepth 1 -name {{xml_file}} | rev | cut -d '/' -f3- | rev
register: wlx_domain_home
ignore_errors: yes
- debug:
msg: "{{ wlx_domain_home.stdout_lines|list }}"
- name: check domain home directory exists
stat:
path: "{{ wlx_domain_home |list }}"
ignore_errors: true
- debug:
msg: "{{ wlx_domain_home.stdout_lines|list }}"
- name: "Ensure Logging Settings in config.xml"
lineinfile:
line: "{{ item.line }}"
regexp: "{{ item.regexp }}"
path: "{{ wlx_domain_home.stdout_lines|list }}/config/config.xml"
state: present
backrefs: yes
register: config.xml.Logging
with_fileglob: "{{ wlx_domain_home.stdout_lines|list }}/config/config.xml"
with_items:
- line: "<logger-severity>Info</logger-severity>"
regexp: "^logger-severity.*"
Expected results are , it has to look for lines in each file and loop through the list. ` Its printing the list and not able to find the content
"_ansible_ignore_errors": true, "msg": "Destination
[u'/appl/cmpas9/user_projects/pte-ipscasws',
u'/appl/bbb/user_projects/qa-ucxservices_bkp',
u'/appl/app/user_projects/weiss_apps12',
u'appl/view/user_projects/weiss_apps12_oldbkp',
u'appl/voc/user_projects/qa-voc']/config/config.xml does not exist !"
}
This is how i fixed the issue. Now it gives output
- name: find all weblogic domain paths
shell: find /tech/appl -type f -name config.xml
register: wlx_domain_config
- debug:
var: wlx_domain_config.stdout_lines
name: "Ensure allow-unencrypted-null-cipher Encryption Settings in config.xml"
shell: grep -i "" {{ item }}
with_items: "{{ wlx_domain_config.stdout_lines }}"
register: allowunencrypted
debug:
var: allowunencrypted.stdout_lines