blockinfile: content="{{ item.content }}" -- Making it pretty

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I have the following which works. However, I would like to make the bash script code “pretty”. It is found under the “content” section of the with_items. How can I do this?

`

  • name: Ensure myscript.sh contains directory checks
    blockinfile:
    dest: “/home/{{ user.stdout }}/Scripts/myscript.sh”
    insertafter: “{{ item.regexp }}”
    marker: “## {mark} added by Ansible - {{ item.define }}”
    content: “{{ item.content }}”
    with_items:
  • { regexp: “^trap.*exit\ 1.1\ 2\ 3\ .”, define: “Check for /interface”, content: “if [ -f /interface/ ]; then echo ‘The /interface/$NATU directory is missing, aborting!’; exit 1; fi” }
  • { regexp: “^NATU.*interface.grep\ natu.”, define: “Check for /interface/natu”, content: “if [ -f /interface/$NATU ]; then echo ‘The /interface/$NATU directory is missing, aborting!’; exit 1; fi” }

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I want to have the content injected into the file as follows (which can easily be done without a loop, but I wish to do this within the loop):

if [ -f /interface/ ]; then
echo 'The /interface/$NATU directory is missing, aborting!'
exit 1
fi

Thanks in advance!

2

Have you tried using \n for the newline?

3

That works! Thanks Kai.