# how to access debug stdout variable **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [April 3, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051 "2019-04-03T14:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kunalsing_Thakur)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/1 "2019-04-03T14:22:32Z")
playbook:- task:- - name: Deploying PCC-test hosts: pulp gather\_facts: true vars\_files: - /etc/ansible/inventories/group\_vars/common.yaml vars: - rpmsearch: true - rpmname: - mobi-auth-manager-5.42.0-201903291228.ed4d6a0.noarch serial: 1 any\_errors\_fatal: true roles: - role: mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp Pulp.yaml:- ---
**Author:** ![racke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/racke/32/4767_2.png) [@racke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/racke)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/2 "2019-04-03T14:29:31Z")
> playbook:- > task:- > - name: Deploying PCC-test > hosts: pulp > gather\_facts: true > vars\_files: > - /etc/ansible/inventories/group\_vars/common.yaml > vars: > - rpmsearch: true > - rpmname: > - mobi-auth-manager-5.42.0-201903291228.ed4d6a0.noarch > serial: 1 > any\_errors\_fatal: true > roles: > - role: mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp > > Pulp.yaml:- > > --- > - name: Logging into pulp > shell: pulp-admin login -u admin -p admin > - name: searching the rpm into pulp repo > shell: pulp-admin rpm repo content rpm --repo-id=mobi-snapshots --match 'filename={{ item }}' > with\_items: "{{ rpmname | default() }}" > register: pulp > when: rpmsearch is defined > - debug: > var: pulp.results.stdout Hello Kunalsing, please try pulp.stdout instead. Regards           Racke ---
**Author:** ![Sebastian\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Sebastian\_Meyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sebastian_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/3 "2019-04-03T14:30:58Z")
You are using register with a loop. That means pulp.results is a list and there's an element for each item in that list. You can access the stdout for the first item with pulp.results.0.stdout Sebastian ---
**Author:** ![Raghavendra\_Rao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@Raghavendra\_Rao](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Raghavendra_Rao)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/4 "2019-04-03T14:31:20Z")
This should be var: pulp.stdout -R.Rao ---
**Author:** ![kunalsing\_thakur1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kunalsing\_thakur1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kunalsing_thakur1)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/5 "2019-04-03T14:37:35Z")
Thank You sebastian. Now i am able to print stdout using pulp.results.0.stdout ---
**Author:** ![Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kunalsing_Thakur)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/6 "2019-04-03T14:44:30Z")
Hi sebastian, when i try to fail the task with this below condition i get the error in task **failed\_when: pulp.results.0.stdout == “\e[0m”** TASK [mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp : searching the rpm into pulp repo] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* task path: /etc/ansible/roles/mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp/tasks/pulp.yaml:4 Wednesday 03 April 2019 14:40:58 +0000 (0:00:01.856) 0:00:06.231 \*\*\*\*\*\*\* fatal: [inplp01p2.infra.smf1.mobitv]: FAILED! =\> msg: ‘The conditional check ‘‘pulp.results.0.stdout == “\e[0m”’’ failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (pulp.results.0.stdout == “\e[0m”): ‘‘dict object’’ has no attribute ‘‘results’’’ ---
**Author:** ![Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kunalsing_Thakur)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/7 "2019-04-03T14:47:51Z")
when i print the pulp.results.0.stdout it will give me following output:- TASK [mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp : debug] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* task path: /etc/ansible/roles/mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp/tasks/pulp.yaml:9 Wednesday 03 April 2019 14:46:40 +0000 (0:00:02.206) 0:00:09.036 \*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [inplp01p2.infra.smf1.mobitv] =\> pulp.results.0.stdout: “\e[0m” which is blank so i want to failed this task? ---
**Author:** ![Sebastian\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Sebastian\_Meyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sebastian_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/8 "2019-04-03T14:47:54Z")
> Hi sebastian, > when i try to fail the task with this below condition i get the error in > task > > \*failed\_when: pulp.results.0.stdout == "\e[0m"\* > > TASK [mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp : searching the rpm into pulp repo] > \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > task path: /etc/ansible/roles/mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp/tasks/pulp.yaml:4 > Wednesday 03 April 2019 14:40:58 +0000 (0:00:01.856) 0:00:06.231 > \*\*\*\*\*\*\* > fatal: [inplp01p2.infra.smf1.mobitv]: FAILED! =\> >   msg: 'The conditional check ''pulp.results.0.stdout == "\e[0m"'' failed. > The error was: error while evaluating conditional (pulp.results.0.stdout == > "\e[0m"): ''dict object'' has no attribute ''results''' While you are in the loop you should be able to use just pulp.stdout, only afterwards the results are merged. Sebastian ---
**Author:** ![Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kunalsing_Thakur)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/9 "2019-04-03T16:02:21Z")
Hi sebastian, pulp.results.0.stdout give me output “\e[0m” But when I try to access in failed\_when condition It is giving me below error. fatal: [node]: FAILED! =\> msg: ‘The conditional check ‘‘pulp.results.0.stdout == “\e[0m”’’ failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (pulp.results.0.stdout == “\e[0m”): ‘‘dict object’’ has no attribute ‘‘results’’’ Looks like in faiked\_when condition it needs dictionary? ---
**Author:** ![Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kunalsing_Thakur)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/10 "2019-04-06T10:09:10Z")
I was able to successfully do this task by following the instructions. Thanks for matt to give some logic. - name: searching the rpm into {{ reponame }} repo shell: pulp-admin rpm repo content rpm --repo-id={{reponame}} --match ‘filename={{ item }}’ loop: “{{ rpmname | default() }}” register: pulp when: search is defined failed\_when: pulp.stdout == “\u001b[0m” Result:- TASK [mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp : searching the rpm into infra] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* task path: /etc/ansible/roles/mobi\_ansible\_role\_pulp/tasks/pulp.yaml:5 Saturday 06 April 2019 10:07:15 +0000 (0:00:02.298) 0:00:02.709 \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* failed: [node] (item=GoIP-devel-1.6.11-201711302323.798cb6f.el7.centos.x86\_64.rpm) =\> changed=true cmd: pulp-admin rpm repo content rpm --repo-id=mobi-infra.smf1.mobitv --match ‘filename=GoIP-devel-1.6.11-201711302323.798cb6f.el7.centos.x86\_64.rpm’ delta: ‘0:00:00.781775’ end: ‘2019-04-06 10:07:17.178794’ failed\_when\_result: true item: GoIP-devel-1.6.11-201711302323.798cb6f.el7.centos.x86\_64.rpm rc: 0 start: ‘2019-04-06 10:07:16.397019’ stderr: ‘’ stderr\_lines: stdout: “\e[0m” stdout\_lines: This issue is resolved now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Melissa\_Liana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Melissa\_Liana](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Melissa_Liana)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-access-debug-stdout-variable/30051/11 "2019-04-08T05:27:15Z")
Hi, Instead of _stdout_, I would suggest using _stdout\_lines_. For multiline output this is much nicer, e.g. ```auto - hosts: all tasks: - name: Run ls.sh and output "ls /" script: ls.sh register: out - debug: var=out.stdout_lines ``` gives ```auto TASK: [debug var=out.stdout_lines] ******************************************** ok: [local] => { "var": { "out.stdout_lines": [ "total 61", "lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Feb 15 2015 bin -> usr/bin", "drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Aug 24 22:08 boot", "drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 3580 Sep 8 18:41 dev", [...] "drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Aug 25 19:14 usr", "drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Feb 25 2015 var" ] } } ``` Regarding real-time output for debugging purposes, there is a closed bug report[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3887#issuecomment-54672569](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3887#issuecomment-54672569) discussing the reasons why this is not possible and will not be implemented. Thanks and regards, Liana melissa, [Automation developer](https://mindmajix.com/ansible-training).