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Hello!

I have tried various ways to get my output to email in a readable format, with newlines, but ansible strips them off everytime. Its just a few shell commands i am testing. I’ve tried a for loop, with items, replace, etc. My email output is all on one-line like so:

"- ’ 12:23:27 up 64 days, 1:36, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.08, 0.02’ - USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT - ‘dbsxxx pts/0 ho-it-dbsxxx-dt Tue08 19:39m 0.16s 0.30s sshd: dbsxxxx [priv]’ - root pts/1 ho-lx-ansible01. 12:23 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s /usr/bin/w - Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on - devtmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev/shm - tmpfs 11G 1.1G 9.1G 11% /run - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup - /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 46G 28G 19G 61% / - /dev/mapper/rootvg-home 10G 33M 10G 1% /home - /dev/sda1 1.1G 383M 656M 37% /boot - /dev/mapper/satvg-satlv01 503G 408G 96G 82% /var/satellite - /dev/mapper/oravg-oralv01 142G 41G 102G 29% /opt/oracle - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/0 - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/1922732921 "

my yaml code is:

  • name: DF + UPTIME PLAYBOOK
    hosts: “*”
    gather_facts: false

tasks:

How do I tell ansible to output in a email format like the way I see it from the debug output on my screen?

ok: [ho-lx-sys-olm01] =>
dfu.stdout_lines:

  • ’ 12:23:27 up 64 days, 1:36, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.08, 0.02’
  • USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
  • ‘dbxxxx pts/0 ho-it-dbxxx-dt Tue08 19:39m 0.16s 0.30s sshd: dbsxxx [priv]’
  • root pts/1 ho-lx-ansible01. 12:23 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s /usr/bin/w
  • Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  • devtmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev
  • tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev/shm
  • tmpfs 11G 1.1G 9.1G 11% /run
  • tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
  • /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 46G 28G 19G 61% /
  • /dev/mapper/rootvg-home 10G 33M 10G 1% /home
  • /dev/sda1 1.1G 383M 656M 37% /boot
  • /dev/mapper/satvg-satlv01 503G 408G 96G 82% /var/satellite
  • /dev/mapper/oravg-oralv01 142G 41G 102G 29% /opt/oracle
  • tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/0
  • tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/1922732921

thank you!

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Hello!

I have tried various ways to get my output to email in a readable format, with newlines, but ansible strips them off everytime. Its just a few shell commands i am testing. I’ve tried a for loop, with items, replace, etc. My email output is all on one-line like so:

"- ’ 12:23:27 up 64 days, 1:36, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.08, 0.02’ - USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT - ‘dbsxxx pts/0 ho-it-dbsxxx-dt Tue08 19:39m 0.16s 0.30s sshd: dbsxxxx [priv]’ - root pts/1 ho-lx-ansible01. 12:23 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s /usr/bin/w - Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on - devtmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev/shm - tmpfs 11G 1.1G 9.1G 11% /run - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup - /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 46G 28G 19G 61% / - /dev/mapper/rootvg-home 10G 33M 10G 1% /home - /dev/sda1 1.1G 383M 656M 37% /boot - /dev/mapper/satvg-satlv01 503G 408G 96G 82% /var/satellite - /dev/mapper/oravg-oralv01 142G 41G 102G 29% /opt/oracle - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/0 - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/1922732921 "

my yaml code is:

  • name: DF + UPTIME PLAYBOOK
    hosts: “*”
    gather_facts: false

tasks:

How do I tell ansible to output in a email format like the way I see it from the debug output on my screen?

The console is using a fixed width font, while your mail client is not.
You need to format the email body in a way that your mail client uses a fixed width font to display it. This is not something this list is for, but as a start wrap the output in 

 tags instead of 
.

Google for email formatting and html to tweak things further.
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ok thank you Dick, I follow you. Anyway, this is what I came up with and it worked like a charm.