How to display raw messages in Ansible?

Question

I have the following playbook:

---
- name: Find sudo mit PPID 1
  hosts: solaris
  become: true

  tasks:
    - shell: "pgrep -P1 -x sudo | xargs -n1 ptree"
      register: result
    - debug: var=result.stdout_lines

The command ansible-playbook quotes the standard output of the command in JSON syntax:

ok: [gggggggg] => {
    "result.stdout_lines": [
        "26982 sudo su -", 
        "  26983 -sh", 
        "    6628  zlogin NNNNNNNN", 
        "      6629  -sh"
    ]
}

This is pretty unreadable for me.

Is it possible to write stdout without JSON quoting as it is done by ad-hoc commands?

gggggggg | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
17589 sudo su -
  17590 -sh
    17613 zlogin NNNNNNNN
      17614 -sh
        17646 bash

No, but you could instead write the output to a file. – larsks Sep 01 '16 at 13:50 — larsks, Sep 01 '16 at 13:50
@larsks Can I use file descriptor 2 as the file? – ceving Sep 02 '16 at 15:51 — ceving, Sep 02 '16 at 15:51
You can use `results.stdout` – Tim Fletcher Sep 20 '16 at 20:33 — Tim Fletcher, Sep 20 '16 at 20:33
@TimFletcher No I can't. It is even less readable. – ceving Sep 21 '16 at 20:03 — ceving, Sep 21 '16 at 20:03

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '16 at 23:24

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Try using the to_nice_json filter:

tasks:
- shell: "pgrep -P1 -x sudo | xargs -n1 ptree"
  register: result
- debug: var="{{ result.stdout_lines | to_nice_json }}"

answered Sep 25 '16 at 23:24

Cory

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How to display raw messages in Ansible?

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