unarchive a file is failing

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Hi Team,

I am trying to unarchive a file is failing with below errors. Could someone please look into it.

Playbook:

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You have to quote the dictionary key as well.

FROM

  • { src_tar: ‘/home/virtual/xx/sample.tar.gz’, dest_tar: ‘/tmp/sss/’ }

TO

  • { ‘src_tar’: ‘/home/virtual/xx/sample.tar.gz’, ‘dest_tar’: ‘/tmp/sss/’ }

Here is the working example. If you write a role and call that role from playbook then you no need to use var_files section. vars/main.yml is one of the default ansible search path.

See how my tasks/main.yml :

cat roles/xyz/tasks/main.yml

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Thank you Mohan that worked for me, but may I know why we need to place them in double quotes??

4

It is unpacking a tar file successfully but at the same time I am getting below error. Could you please help.

{“msg”: “The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘dict object’ has no attribute ‘dest_tar’\n\nThe error appears to have been in ‘/etc/ansible/xxx/xy/tasks/main.yml’: line 26, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: test\n ^ here\n”}

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Ansible think src_tar as variable If you don’t place quotes so through error saying undefined variable.

6

It looks like again you are not placing quotes around dictionary key. Can you please show your code which through this error?

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Please find the files below.

vars/main.yml

XYZ:

  • { src: ‘/tmp/abc/ab.warr’, dest: ‘/tmp/abc/’ }

TAR:

  • { “src_tar”: “/tmp/xx/sample.tar.gz”, “dest_tar”: “/tmp/sss/” }

tasks/main.yml

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I am not clear about what you are trying to achieve here. are you using XYZ in with_items? Please note you have to quote src and dest in XYZ other Ansible will src/dest are variables.

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I am not clear about what you are trying to achieve here. are you using XYZ in with_items? Please note you have to quote src and dest in XYZ otherwise Ansible will treat src/dest are variables.