How to add string along with variable in Ansible lineinfile

Archives Ansible Project
1

I want my filedet.yaml to look like

10.9.75.78: /app/tmp/tmp.log, /vars/tmp/test.out
10.9.55.74: /app/tmp/tmp1.log, /vars/tmp/admin.out

The below works fine and logs the data correctly but when i add ': ’ the syntax breaks and I get error

`

  • name: Logging the deployment’s file details to a Ansible variable file
    local_action: lineinfile line={{ inventory_hostname }}': '{{ vars[‘fdetails_’ + Layer].results|map(attribute=‘stdout’)|list }} path={{ playbook_dir }}/vars/filedets.yaml
    `

Output Error:

The offending line appears to be:
local_action: lineinfile line={{ inventory_hostname }}': '{{ vars[‘fdetails_’ + Layer].results|map(attribute=‘stdout’)|list }} path={{ playbook_dir }}/vars/filedets.yaml
^ here
We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they
start a value. For instance:

Can you please suggest how can I inject the colons and space ': ’ between the the variable in line ?

2

[...]
Have you tried to put the lineline into '"'?

local_action: lineinfile line="{{ inventory_hostname }}': '{{
vars['fdetails_' + Layer].results|map(attribute='stdout')|list }}"
path="{{ playbook_dir }}/vars/filedets.yaml"

Wawrzek

3

@Wawrzek It still does not work.

I tried this but it fails too:

local_action: lineinfile line="{{ inventory_hostname }}': '{{ vars['fdetails_' + Layer].results|map(attribute='stdout')|list }}" path={{ playbook_dir }}/vars/filedets.yaml

4

Use the escape sequence \x20 as space.