script output variable causes an error (\r\n)

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Dear community,

I’m using ansible in version 1.2 in combination with debian 6.0

In one playbook I’m doing a step that does grep the name of the user who owns this domain:

  • name: get domain and db user
    action: script …/scripts/get_user.sh $DOMAIN
    register: USER
    ignore_errors: True

The output is for example peter.

The next step is:

  • name: delete user and group
    action: shell deluser -f {{USER.stdout}}

On my testing system all does work well … in the production system (debian 6.0 , ansible 1.2) I get an error:

TASK: [delete user and group] *************************************************
failed: [productionsystem] => {“changed”: true, “cmd”: "deluser -f peter\r\n ", “delta”: “0:00:00.061755”, “end”: “2013-07-07 19:31:45.344276”, “rc”: 2, “start”: “2013-07-07 19:31:45.282521”}
’ does not exist./deluser: The user `peter
FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

First issue is , that \r\n got into USER.stdout (on one system , not on the other one)

Second is that this ’ does not exist./deluser: The user `peter , should be:

deluser: The user `peter’ does not exist.
It get shrinked. Why ( this is just a question of interest in ansible or how ansible works)

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas? What am I doing wrong.

Thank you in advance

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There was a reported bug that the options to the script module are not getting templated.

It’s in my queue of things to investigate and we have a github tracking this, though if people would like to beat me to it, that would be great!

–Michael

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Can I raise this question again? :slight_smile:

Any efforts or work arounds?

4

This was already fixed.

If you think there’s a new issue, please file at ticket after reading the “Contributing.md” instructions in github about what we’re looking.

Thanks!