使用Ansible从Windows命令提示符输出中提取特定列

Question

I wanted to get the 3rd and 5th column output. I used the below command in my playbook.

win_shell: dir | awk '{print $3,$5}'

But I get output as below.

        "awk : The term 'awk' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the ",
        "spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.",]

When I execute the command via the windows prompt I get the expected output. Please help.

Answer 1

You could perform you column extraction in Ansible rather than using awk . For example, assuming you've registered the output of your win_shell task in a variable called result , you could do this:

- debug:
    var: item.split()|json_query('[[2], [4]]')
  loop: "{{ output.stdout_lines }}"

This would display the 3rd and 5th column (arrays are zero-indexed) from each line of output. Maybe you want to put this in a list instead of just displaying it:

- set_fact:
    data: "{{ data|default([]) + [item.split()|json_query('[[2], [4]]')] }}"
  loop: "{{ output.stdout_lines }}"