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bendeprogramistom
bendeprogramistom

Reputation: 11

Ansible remove comment above specific line

I am doing a script to automate file editing on server when deploying an agent of some service, the file is config.xml and I am editing fields using replace, so for eg.:

 - name: Update config.xml - PROXY HOST
   replace:
     path: "{{agent_path}}{{ cfg_agent }}/agent/config.xml"
     regexp: "YOUR_PROXY_HOST"
     replace: "{{cfg_proxyhost}}"

Config.xml looks like:

<!--
<parameter name="mid.proxy.use_proxy" value="true"/>
<parameter name="mid.proxy.host" value="YOUR_PROXY_HOST"/>
<parameter name="mid.proxy.port" value="YOUR_PROXY_PORT"/>
-->

So when I run this particular task it will replace YOUR_PROXY_HOST for a value under {{cfg_proxyhost}}, let's say like that:

<!--
<parameter name="mid.proxy.use_proxy" value="true"/>
<parameter name="mid.proxy.host" value="http://proxy.foo"/>
<parameter name="mid.proxy.port" value="YOUR_PROXY_PORT"/>
-->

But then I need to remove those <!-- above and --> below to make it working. There is a lot of other parameters in the file commented in the same way. I need to remove these particular ones. How can it be done using ansible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 330

Answers (1)

bendeprogramistom
bendeprogramistom

Reputation: 11

Actually I have resolved it by using Jinja2 template, replacing the files with a pre-defined variables within a template, but if any of You could answer how to just remove that comment, that will be nice :)

Upvotes: 1

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