To simplify out the fact that my multi-line string was YAML, how about this
example:
Example string:
multi_line_string: |
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipiscing elit,
sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt
ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim
ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in
voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla
pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,
sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Task:
- name: Cloud-init user_data
debug: var=multi_line_string
Output:
ok: [localhost] => {
"multi_line_string": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\nconsectetur
adipiscing elit,\nsed do eiusmod tempor incididunt\nut labore et dolore
magna aliqua. Ut enim\nad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation\nullamco
laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo\nconsequat.\nDuis aute irure dolor in
reprehenderit in\nvoluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat
nulla\npariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,\nsunt in
culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.\n"
}
On Monday, 15 September 2014 15:59:29 UTC-7, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> Let me take that back - it's because it's JSON. It would not be valid
> JSON if it were not.
>
> Sorry, this is what you're pretty much going to have here, unless we teach
> debug to have an format=yaml option or something, which I'd be ok with.
>
> But even then, YAML needs hints and might get it wrong.
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Michael DeHaan <mic...@ansible.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> That's because they are escaped newlines, versus real newlines, I'm
>> suspecting.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:51 PM, AJ Daws <tony....@gmail.com
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately that still shows escaped newline characters so isn't any
>>> more readable. For example:
>>>
>>> TASK: [ec2-launcher-v2 | debug var=cloudinit_user_data]
>>> ***********************
>>> ok: [localhost] => {
>>> "cloudinit_user_data": "#cloud-config\nusers:\n - name: core\n
>>> ssh-authorized-keys:\n - ssh-rsa AAAA..."
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, 15 September 2014 14:32:43 UTC-7, James Cammarata wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi AJ,
>>>>
>>>> Using "- debug: var=cloudinit_user_data" will show you the
>>>> pretty-printed version of the var, without any escaped values, though you
>>>> won't be able to control the indentation of that data.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:55 PM, AJ Daws <tony....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a large, multi-line string that I would like to output in a
>>>>> role. Currently I'm using the debug module like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> - name: Cloud-init user_data
>>>>> debug:
>>>>> msg: "{{ cloudinit_user_data|indent(6) }}"
>>>>>
>>>>> However this generates JSON output which is quite hard to read as
>>>>> newlines are represented as "\n" rather than an actual new line. Is
>>>>> there
>>>>> a simple way to simply output a string as-is?
>>>>>
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