# ansible 1.6.9 file contents eats spaces

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-6-9-file-contents-eats-spaces/15781>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 25, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-6-9-file-contents-eats-spaces/15781 "2014-07-25T16:35:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![anatoly\_techtonik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@anatoly\_techtonik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anatoly_techtonik)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-6-9-file-contents-eats-spaces/15781/1 "2014-07-25T16:35:27Z")

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-6-9-file-contents-eats-spaces/15781/2 "2014-07-25T18:24:11Z")

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Hi Anatoly, I believe I have a fix for this, if you’d like to test it out (pushed to devel now):

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/3714c0742fe962d3593ae7b4d28c4c0b1f0c5771](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/3714c0742fe962d3593ae7b4d28c4c0b1f0c5771)

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**Author:** ![anatoly\_techtonik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@anatoly\_techtonik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anatoly_techtonik)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-6-9-file-contents-eats-spaces/15781/3 "2014-07-26T05:30:23Z")

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Confirm that 1.6.10 fixes that. I wasted a lot of time before writing  
to the list. =)

From  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.6.10/CHANGELOG.md#1610-and-the-cradle-will-rock---jul-25-2014](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.6.10/CHANGELOG.md#1610-and-the-cradle-will-rock---jul-25-2014)  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Improved unicode handling when splitting args

It is a regression in 1.6.9.

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**Author:** ![anatoly\_techtonik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@anatoly\_techtonik](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anatoly_techtonik)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-6-9-file-contents-eats-spaces/15781/4 "2014-07-26T05:43:36Z")

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[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8300](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8300) - can't wait to see fix  
landed in Debian.

Actualy, my system already updated to 1.6.10. I don't how did that happen  
considering that [https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ansible](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ansible) still  
lists 1.6.9