I am getting a failure with the latter half of my task. I replaced the working stuff with …
According to a regexp tester, every group does have something, and I don’t have empty groups. https://regex101.com/r/MNkwaD/1
I changed stdout_callback to minimal, but it didn’t look much different.
I am so new to regexp I could use another pair of eyes. I don’t know what else to look for here.
Code:
`
- name: Sanitize vm.cfg step 2 of 2
lineinfile:
path: “{{ file }}”
regexp: “{{ item.regexp }}”
line: “{{ item.line }}”
backrefs: “{{ item.backrefs }}”
with_items:
… - regexp: (^disk\W+[)?(‘file:[^’]+‘(,)?)?(‘phy:[^’]+’(,)?)?(])?
line: \1\2\3\6
backrefs: yes
`
Failure:
`
failed: [ovmftp] (item={u’regexp’: u"(^disk\W+\[)?(‘file:[^’]+‘(,)?)?(‘phy:[^’]+’(,)?)?(])?", u’line’: u’\1\2\3\6\5\4’, u’backrefs’: True}) => {“changed”: false, “item”: {“backrefs”: true, “line”: “\1\2\3\6\5\4”, “regexp”: “(^disk\W+\[)?(‘file:[^’]+‘(,)?)?(‘phy:[^’]+’(,)?)?(])?”}, “module_stderr”: “tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified\ntput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File "", line 113, in \n File "", line 105, in _ansiballz_main\n File "", line 48, in invoke_module\n File "/tmp/ansible_lineinfile_payload_Wm2J_Z/main.py", line 520, in \n File "/tmp/ansible_lineinfile_payload_Wm2J_Z/main.py", line 511, in main\n File "/tmp/ansible_lineinfile_payload_Wm2J_Z/main.py", line 300, in present\n File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/re.py", line 266, in _expand\n return sre_parse.expand_template(template, match)\n File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/sre_parse.py", line 800, in expand_template\n raise error, "unmatched group"\nsre_constants.error: unmatched group\n”, “module_stdout”: “”, “msg”: “MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error”, “rc”: 1}
`