I am ensuring a file with a specific content is present on a Linux machine.
Neither of the tasks below resulted in a file that ends with with a newline:
- name: Write a file with content
ansible.builtin.copy:
content: "{{ files_content }}"
dest: /tmp/foo.txt
- name: Write a file with content
ansible.builtin.copy:
content: "{{ files_content }}\\n"
dest: /tmp/bar.txt
- name: Write a file with content
ansible.builtin.copy:
content: "{{ files_content }}\n"
dest: /tmp/foobar.txt"
How can I make sure that the file ends with a newline character?
If there is no other way I guess I could use the task below.
- name: Write a file with content
ansible.builtin.copy:
content: |
{{ files_content }}
dest: /tmp/foobar.txt"
But I am curious if I have to.
Q: "How can I make sure that the file ends with a newline character?"
A: Just add the character to the variable content, the string during Templating (Jinja2).
A minimal example playbook
---
- hosts: localhost
become: false
gather_facts: false
vars:
CONTENT: 'test'
tasks:
- name: Write a file with content
ansible.builtin.copy:
content: "{{ CONTENT ~ '\n' }}"
dest: test.txt
will result into an outfile test.txt with the requested content.
$ cat test.txt
test
$