Hi, Try replacing the hyphens with underscores are per documentation below.
https://docs.ansible.com/archive/ansible/2.4/playbooks_variables.html#what-makes-a-valid-variable-name Regards > On 8 Jun 2023, at 11:35, Kathy L <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have what I thought was an easy problem to solve. A client has several > different set ups of Debian 10 hosts. We are using ansible to install > osqueryd and need to install the osqueryd.service file. I am trying to > register the first result of the command: > > "locate osqueryd.service." > > The error I am getting is: > "Invalid variable name is 'register' specified: 'osqueryd-service-file" > > Here is my ansible code: > > - name: Locate osqueryd.service file > command: "locate osqueryd.service" > register: osqueryd-service-file > > - name: Print osqueryd.service file > debug: > msg: "osqueryd service file is > osqueryd-service-file.results.1.stdout" > > I don't even get to the debug statement. Why won't it let me register the > results of the locate command? > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/71d6a619-8e30-44e9-b18f-4557f3fc7387n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/71d6a619-8e30-44e9-b18f-4557f3fc7387n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0B3161BE-9D9B-4CC4-AC54-46598F73804D%40gmail.com.
