Hi Surjeet, It might help to understand if you think of your variable "version" as a dictionary of lists of dictionaries. Think of it as a data structure that you need to decompose to understand.
If you take the output you get when you run your playbook and paste it into something like https://jsoneditoronline.org/ you can start to understand the structure and that will make it much easier to pick out the information you need. for example: I have a playbook that runs "show version" and "show inv" once I save the output into a variable I called output (equivalent to your "version" variable) I can see that my output structure is a dictionary with three key value pairs: {"changed": false, "msg": "all items completed", results: <this is a list of dictionaries with the first element [0] having data to do with show version and the second element [1] having data to do with show inv} You can also see that results[0] has keys like item, stdout, stdout_lines (which is a list), changed, failed, etc.. If you decompose output.results[0].item you get the command that was run. TASK [debug] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************** ok: [arctic-3650] => { "output.results[0].item": "show version" } This is the part of my playbook where I try to decompose the data so you see me printing out various parts of the data structure. # save the command output in a variable called "output" register: output # print the contents of the variable "output" which is a dictionary of lists of dictionaries - debug: var=output # print the first command that was run - debug: var=output.results[0].item # print the command results with line feeds - debug: var=output.results[0].stdout_lines # print the list item #72 - debug: var=output.results[0].stdout_lines[0][72] <snip> TASK [debug] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************** ok: [arctic-3650] => { "output.results[0].stdout_lines[0][72]": "* 1 28 WS-C3650-24TS 03.06.06E cat3k_caa-universalk9 INSTALL" } Having said all of this because its key to be able to figure out what you get back from the playbook run, give the ios_facts module a try! <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rKkNzUTPlHg/WmTQutIoufI/AAAAAAAAF0Y/1XK1a-fp8YgaNcGoFGvSR27Wd7EEPFcaACLcBGAs/s1600/2018-01-21_09-37-14.png> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1666b615-3a1d-4b08-b476-80495cc2e395%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
