How to store command output into array in Ansible?
Ansible stores the output of shell and command action modules in stdout and stdout_lines variables. The latter contains separate lines of the standard output in a form of a list.
To iterate over the elements, use:
with_items: - "{{ annoying.stdout_lines }}"You should remember that parsing ls output might cause problems in some cases.
Can you try as below.
- name: Run command to cat each file and then capture that output. shell: cat {{ item.stdout_lines }} register: annoying_words with_items: - "{{ annoying.results }}"
annoying.stdout_lines is already a list.
From doc of stdout_lines
When stdout is returned, Ansible always provides a list of strings, each containing one item per line from the original output.
To assign the list to another variable do:
.. register: annoying - set_fact: varName: "{{annoying.stdout_lines}}" # print first element on the list - debug: msg="{{varName | first}}"