That's because they are escaped newlines, versus real newlines, I'm suspecting.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:51 PM, AJ Daws <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately that still shows escaped newline characters so isn't any > more readable. For example: > > TASK: [ec2-launcher-v2 | debug var=cloudinit_user_data] > *********************** > ok: [localhost] => { > "cloudinit_user_data": "#cloud-config\nusers:\n - name: core\n > ssh-authorized-keys:\n - ssh-rsa AAAA..." > > > On Monday, 15 September 2014 14:32:43 UTC-7, James Cammarata wrote: >> >> Hi AJ, >> >> Using "- debug: var=cloudinit_user_data" will show you the pretty-printed >> version of the var, without any escaped values, though you won't be able to >> control the indentation of that data. >> >> Thanks! >> >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:55 PM, AJ Daws <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have a large, multi-line string that I would like to output in a role. >>> Currently I'm using the debug module like this: >>> >>> - name: Cloud-init user_data >>> debug: >>> msg: "{{ cloudinit_user_data|indent(6) }}" >>> >>> However this generates JSON output which is quite hard to read as >>> newlines are represented as "\n" rather than an actual new line. Is there >>> a simple way to simply output a string as-is? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/ansible-project/ea53aba8-c5c4-449b-875d- >>> 8440606426bc%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/ea53aba8-c5c4-449b-875d-8440606426bc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6aad5e54-d5ae-46ac-a08e-153591f35b95%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6aad5e54-d5ae-46ac-a08e-153591f35b95%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgwUxwm30S7WNfPFftta-_UZu3iJCDKhKMekrjtfRWrYRQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
