Register command output with_items

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Hi

I have the following in my playbook

  • hosts: localhost
    tasks:

  • name: echo output
    command: echo {{item}}
    register: echo_output
    with_items:

  • hi

  • hello

  • debug: msg=“{{ echo_output.results}}”

When I run this playbook, I am getting the following

RES1SMOHANAS-M1:ansible-portal_platform smohanasundaram$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/sriDev.ini -c local portal_platform_liferay_patches_prestage.yml
[WARNING]: The prettytable python module is not installed. Disabling the
HipChat callback plugin.

[WARNING]: HipChat token could not be loaded. The HipChat token can be
provided using the HIPCHAT_TOKEN environment variable.

PLAY [localhost] **************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [127.0.0.1]

TASK: [echo output] ***********************************************************
changed: [127.0.0.1] => (item=hi)
changed: [127.0.0.1] => (item=hello)

TASK: [debug msg=“{{ echo_output.results}}”] **********************************
ok: [127.0.0.1] => {
“msg”: “[{u’stdout’: u’hi’, u’changed’: True, u’end’: u’2016-04-28 10:14:19.487867’, u’start’: u’2016-04-28 10:14:19.465853’, u’cmd’: [u’echo’, u’hi’], u’rc’: 0, ‘item’: ‘hi’, u’stderr’: u’‘, u’delta’: u’0:00:00.022014’, ‘invocation’: {‘module_name’: u’command’, ‘module_args’: u’echo hi’}, u’warnings’: }, {u’stdout’: u’hello’, u’changed’: True, u’end’: u’2016-04-28 10:14:19.710345’, u’start’: u’2016-04-28 10:14:19.688217’, u’cmd’: [u’echo’, u’hello’], u’rc’: 0, ‘item’: ‘hello’, u’stderr’: u’‘, u’delta’: u’0:00:00.022128’, ‘invocation’: {‘module_name’: u’command’, ‘module_args’: u’echo hello’}, u’warnings’: }]”
}

TASK: [debug msg=“{{ echo_output.results|map(attribute=‘stdout’)|list}}”] *****
ok: [127.0.0.1] => {
“msg”: “[u’hi’, u’hello’]”
}

TASK: [debug msg=“{{ echo_output.results|map(attribute=‘stdout_lines’)|list}}”] ***
ok: [127.0.0.1] => {
“msg”: “[Undefined, Undefined]”
}

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
127.0.0.1 : ok=5 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0

’

Looks like stdout_lines is not present in the “echo_output.results”. Please let me know what could be wrong here.

Thanks
Sri

2

Sri,
It would help if the your output matched the playbook you are running.

Your problem task isn’t even in your test playbook!

TASK: [debug msg=“{{ echo_output.results|map(attribute=‘stdout_lines’)|list}}”] ***
ok: [127.0.0.1] => {
“msg”: “[Undefined, Undefined]”
}

Anyway, this works for me on stable-2.0.0.1 on centos 7.
I get the output below, which is probably what you are expecting:

ok: [t1] => {
“msg”: [
[
“hi”
],
[
“hello”
]
]
}

3

Hi John

Do you mind sharing your playbook with me? So that I can take a look at the code.

Thanks
Sri