Quotes in ansible lineinfile

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When I use lineinfile in ansible it is not writing ', " characters
lineinfile: 'dest=/home/xyz state=present line="CACHES="default""'

it is giving CACHES=default
but the desired output is CACHES="default"

How to achieve this?

Best Answer

it appears you can escape the quotes:

- lineinfile: dest=/tmp/xyz state=present line="CACHES=\"default\""

That gives this output:

$ cat /tmp/xyz
CACHES="default"

You don't need to escape single quotes that are inside double quotes:

- lineinfile: dest=/tmp/xyz state=present line="CACHES=\"default\" foo='x'"
cat /tmp/xyz
CACHES="default" foo='x'

source: YAML specification, stackoverflow answer

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You need to add backrefs=yes if you don't want to change your regular expression.

- name: test lineinfile
  lineinfile: backup=yes state=present dest=/etc/foo.txt
              regexp='^#bar' backrefs=yes
              line='bar'

This changes the behavior of lineinfile from:

 find
 if found
   replace line found
 else
   add line

to:

 find
 if found
   replace line found

In other words, this makes operation idempotent.

How to add new line in ansible playbook

As I understand you can use insertafter=<regexp>:

--- play.yml
- hosts: localhost                                                              
  gather_facts: False                                                           
  tasks:                                                                        
    - name: "Configure Node River"                                            
      local_action: 'lineinfile dest=/home/ig/test.conf
                     line="node.river: river_name" insertafter="first line"'

test.conf before:

first line
second line

test conf after:

first line
node.river: river_name
second line

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