How to get shell command output to ansible variables file

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I need to set variable in defaults\main.yml to something like:

eth1_ipaddress: {% /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | awk -F ' *|:' '/inet addr/{print $4}' %}

Is there a way to achieve this? I know this can be achived using shell and register module. But that is not what I am looking at since I need to add certain conditions before setting the variable value.

Markus Klems · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-22 14:38:53Z

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You could use hostvars facts like this:

{{ hostvars[host]['ansible_eth1']['ipv4']['address'] }}

Make sure that you set:

- hosts: whatever
  gather_facts: yes

See: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#information-discovered-from-systems-facts

answered Jul 22, 2015 at 14:38

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