Shell module output from playboot is lesster than ansible adhoc shell output

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Am facing this this weird issue. Am getting less no of lines output for Shell module in playbook where getting full output in ansible adhoc for the same commands.

Playbook output:

“HOSTNAME - ansiblevm2”,
“DATE - Tue Apr 30 05:07:50 CUT 2019”,
“UPTIME - 05:07AM up 7 days, 13:35, 1 user, load average: 4.05, 4.66, 4.56”,
“OSLEVEL- 7200-03-01-1838”,
“”,
“”,
" Top 20 processes consuming memory",
“USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY STAT STIME TIME COMMAND”,
“root 8978836 0.1 4.0 79484 76536 - A Apr 22 46:41 /opt/BESClient”,
“root 13959600 0.0 1.0 25096 19180 - A Apr 27 2:28 /opt/IBM/SCM/c”,
“root 11272508 0.0 1.0 10600 10612 - A 02:53:50 0:00 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“root 9306390 0.1 1.0 32048 13364 - A Apr 22 53:44 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“root 4850110 0.0 1.0 13572 13616 - A Apr 22 0:49 /opt/rsct/bin/”,
“root 16712108 0.0 0.0 1756 772 - A Apr 22 0:05 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“root 16318770 0.0 0.0 9500 2756 - A Apr 22 0:21 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“root 15729064 0.0 0.0 1592 1188 - A Apr 22 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd”,
“root 15204834 0.0 0.0 8536 8524 - A 02:53:19 0:00 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“root 15073552 0.0 0.0 4544 1560 - A Apr 22 0:12 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“”,
“”,
" Top 20 processes consuming CPU",
“USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY STAT STIME TIME COMMAND”,
“root 1048868 0.2 0.0 448 448 - A Apr 22 74:40 wait”,
“root 983330 0.2 0.0 448 448 - A Apr 22 74:43 wait”,
“root 9306390 0.1 1.0 32048 13364 - A Apr 22 53:44 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“root 8978836 0.1 4.0 79484 76536 - A Apr 22 46:41 /opt/BESClient”,
“root 917792 0.1 0.0 448 448 - A Apr 22 56:25 wait”,
“root 260 0.1 0.0 448 448 - A Apr 22 33:44 wait”,
“root 16712108 0.0 0.0 1756 772 - A Apr 22 0:05 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“root 16318770 0.0 0.0 9500 2756 - A Apr 22 0:21 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”,
“root 15729064 0.0 0.0 1592 1188 - A Apr 22 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd”,
“root 15204834 0.0 0.0 8536 8524 - A 02:53:19 0:00 /opt/IBM/ITM/a”
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Can anyone please help / advise ?

Thank you.

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I’m confused. What exactly is the problem? Those look the same to me.

Make sure you understand the difference between output.stdout and output.stdout_lines.

output.stdout is one string, including newline characters.
output.stdout_lines is a list of strings, one string per line.

Also, any stderr (which normally just appears in the terminal mixed in with the rest) will be saved to output.stderr (and output.stderr_lines).

We need more information about your problem before we can help more.

What does your task look like? (Copy and paste the yaml). What is the command you’re running? Are you running it with sudo, or from a root shell, or normal shell? What is the difference between what you expect to see and what you actually see.

Regards,
Matt