Question:
I am using Ansible’s shell module to find a particular string and store it in a variable. But if grep did not find anything I am getting an error.
Example:
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- name: Get the http_status shell: grep "http_status=" /var/httpd.txt register: cmdln check_mode: no |
When I run this Ansible playbook if http_status string is not there, playbook is stopped. I am not getting stderr.
How can I make Ansible run without interruption even if the string is not found?
Answer:
Like you observed, ansible will stop execution if the grep exit code is not zero. You can ignore it with ignore_errors.
Another trick is to pipe the grep output to cat. So cat exit code will always be zero since its stdin is grep’s stdout. It works if there is a match and also when there is no match. Try it.
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- name: Get the http_status shell: grep "http_status=" /var/httpd.txt | cat register: cmdln check_mode: no |