registered variables being dumped to local files

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hi all. i run a python script on a linux server that produces a report relating to
patch levels and such. it's a fairly simple thing that was requested for audit
purposes. it's a home-grown script. it works fine, and does what it needs to do.
the report it produces is simply sent to stdout.

with the hope of producing a single report covering all of these servers, i have
created a simple playbook which is designed to run the script on all targets,
capture their report via stdout, and add the reports to a single local file via
local_action. sometimes this works, and sometimes it does not. in all cases i
can see that the report is generated (stdout for each target shows on the
ansible controller during task execution). but sometimes all output for a given
target is missing from the local logfile. here is the playbook:

in case it gets munged in email:
    https://paste.pound-python.org/show/Q8hdyPC38ADSYCX82wwV/

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sorry, i pasted an older (broken) yml ...

https://paste.pound-python.org/show/QAOL5ukLVvAtqtCN8I3V/

the difference is "report.stdout" vs "report.stdout.lines" ...
this issue also happens with blockinfile.

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Lets say you have 20 host, then you would have 20 task trying to write to the same file at once(or at least 5 at a time with default, because forks is default set to 5), this will seldom if at all work.

You can use assemble or the template module, personally I would use the template.

local_report.j2

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This makes a lot of sense. I thought i had multiple things running into each other, and I suppose
the fact that it seemed to work sometimes threw me off somewhat.

Thanks!