I'd recommend any time you need to use escape characters, that you use
single quotes around the value, instead of double quotes. It will resolve
many of the issues with how pyyaml does it's parsing
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:04 PM John Harmon <jharmon.ansi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Sorry, last error message is slightly innaccurate.... I was testing a
> change in that one (difference is brackets [ ]):
>
> TASK [dns_update : include_tasks]
> ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> fatal: [ansible-ub18]: FAILED! => {"reason": "Syntax Error while loading
> YAML.\n found unknown escape character\n\nThe error appears to have been
> in '/etc/ansible/role/dns_update/tasks/Ubuntu18.yml': line 7, column 15,
> but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax
> problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n regexp:
> \".*nameservers.*$\\n.*addresses:(.*$)\"\n replace: \"\\1 {{ dns1 }}, {{
> dns 2}}\"\n ^ here\nWe could be wrong, but this one looks like
> it might be an issue with\nmissing quotes. Always quote template
> expression brackets when they\nstart a value. For instance:\n\n
> with_items:\n - {{ foo }}\n\nShould be written as:\n\n
> with_items:\n - \"{{ foo }}\"\n"}
>
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