Thank you Kai,
That worked. I'm obviously new to Ansible so I'm sure I'll have many more
questions in the future.
-Tim
On Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 11:44:14 AM UTC-4, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> On 02. nov. 2017 14:44, Tim Davidson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to read some .csv files, then create config files for each of
> > the .csv files, based on a template. Reading the files is not a problem.
> > However, I can't seem to get the destination parameter to work. I would
> > like the output file to be the name of the original .csv file with a
> .xml
> > extension.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > - name: Read the csv files
> > find:
> > paths: /home/sysadmin/TimsTest1/roles/opengear/files
> > patterns: '*.csv'
> > register: files_matched
> >
> > - name: Create OpenGear device configs
> > template:
> > src: "opengear8port.j2"
> > dest: "{{ files_matched.files.path | basename |
> > regex_replace('csv','xml') }}"
> > with_items: "{{ files_matched.files }}"
>
>
> When you're using with_items, it takes the first item in
> files_matched.files and put it in the variable called item, so your dest
> should be
>
> dest: "{{ item.path | basename | regex_replace('csv','xml') }}"
>
>
> Regex_replace will overwrite csv in the filename too, to avoid that you
> can use this instead:
>
> dest: "{{ (item.path | basename).rsplit('.', 1)[0] }}.csv"
>
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
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