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Eunito
Eunito

Reputation: 436

: character error in a grep command using ansible shell module

Im trying to find a certain key value pair in a json file but ansible doesn't seem to like the : character... I tried escaping all the characters without success... any idea on what I'm doing wrong?

- name: Check if file contains the entry KEY VAL
  shell: cat PATH/dummy_file.file | grep  "\"KEY\": \"VAL\""
  become: yes
  become_method: sudo
  failed_when: false
  register: cat_result

Upvotes: 0

Views: 162

Answers (1)

KamilCuk
KamilCuk

Reputation: 141768

Quote the whole shell line:

 shell: 'cat PATH/dummy_file.file | grep "\"KEY\": \"VAL\""'

Upvotes: 1

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