# Regular Expression in ANSIBLE **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ansible-project\ **Created:** [July 2, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regular-expression-in-ansible/33303 "2020-07-02T07:11:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Srinivas\_Naram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Srinivas\_Naram](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Srinivas_Naram)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regular-expression-in-ansible/33303/1 "2020-07-02T07:11:04Z")
Hello - is this log file located in the server where Ansible is installed or remote server ? ---
**Author:** ![Srinivas\_Naram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Srinivas\_Naram](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Srinivas_Naram)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regular-expression-in-ansible/33303/2 "2020-07-02T09:40:23Z")
Not sure how you are initiating your playbooks. Here is what I did. I initiated my playbooks from a shell script and parsed the output in the script. ---
**Author:** ![Stefan\_Schmid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Stefan\_Schmid](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stefan_Schmid)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regular-expression-in-ansible/33303/3 "2020-07-02T09:42:43Z")
What may work is using Ansible Modul script. It returns e.g. as stdout only the requested string. ---
**Author:** ![Jenisha\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Jenisha\_T](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jenisha_T)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regular-expression-in-ansible/33303/4 "2020-07-02T13:48:18Z")
It’s solved. I was asking about regex. But I couldn’t see your solution. Thankyou!