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Stephen Gibbons
Stephen Gibbons

Reputation: 13

Ansible ad-hoc task: How to separate output by host for clarity?

Is there a way to separate by host the output from a multi fork ad-hoc command?

I.e., if I ran:

ansible <group> -a '/some/cmd' -f 2

The result comes back as one long stream like

host1 | CHANGED | rc=0 >>
Listing...
"some output"
host2 | CHANGED | rc=0 >>
Listing...
"other output"

For clarity I would prefer the output with a gap between the output from each host like:

host1 | CHANGED | rc=0 >>
Listing...
"some output"

host2 | CHANGED | rc=0 >>
Listing...
"other output"

Even creating a script on the target that does an echo at the end and running that doesn't do it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 735

Answers (1)

U880D
U880D

Reputation: 12132

I've experienced the same behavior that empty lines at the end gets removed. Since I have a similar requirement sometimes and depending on the task, I use the following approach

ansible test --user ${USER} --ask-pass --module-name shell --args "echo 'Output format test'; echo ' ';"

resulting in an output of

test1.example.com | CHANGED | rc=0 >>
Output format test

test2.example.com | CHANGED | rc=0 >>
Output format test

In other words, just add an ; echo ' '; at the end.

Further information regarding output formatting can be found under

Upvotes: 1

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