That's great - thanks. Not sure i understood "block scalars" before.
On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 7:22:02 AM UTC-5 Todd Lewis wrote:
> To get the literal backslashes in the crontab file, you need to escape the
> backslashes ("\\") in your double-quoted YAML string.
>
> Alternatively, you could change your double-quoted string to a
> single-quoted string, because backslashes aren't "special" in single-quoted
> strings. If you do that, you'll also need to double the single quotes to
> get literal single quotes — i.e. '*.gz' becomes ''*.gz'' etc.
> (Double-quoted strings and single-quoted strings have completely different
> rules.)
>
> Another alternative is to change your string to a "block scalar" (
> https://yaml-multiline.info/) where all quotes and backslashes are not
> "special":
>
> line: |
> {{ 23|random }} * * * find /var/ossec/logs/ \( -name '*.gz' -o -name
> '*.json' -o -name '*.log' \) -type f -mtime +2 -delete; find /var/ossec/logs
> -type d -empty -delete
>
>
> On 1/23/24 6:10 AM, Kathy L wrote:
>
> Good morning. I am updating a cron job by replacing a line in the crontab
> file. My error comes when I use the "\" (see below) to escape the "(".
> Using the escape character works on the command line but Ansible keeps
> giving me a syntax error. Here is my code:
>
> - name: Check for cron job to remove wazuh logs
> lineinfile:
> path: "{{ cron_job_path[ansible_distribution] }}"
> regexp: "find /var/ossec/logs"
> line: "{{ 59|random }} {{ 23|random }} * * * find /var/ossec/logs/ \(
> -name '*.gz' -o -name '*.json' -o -name '*.log' \) -type f -mtime +2
> -delete; find /var/ossec/logs -type d -empty -delete"
> state: present
>
> With this code, Ansible states "this one looks like it might be an issue
> with missing quotes".
>
> I need to escape the "(" for it to work in crontab/bash command line.
> When I delete the "\" characters the Ansible error goes away, but of course
> it does not work in crontab/bash.
>
> I've tried using " around each of the commands but that doesn't work
> either.
>
> Does anyone see where I have gone wrong?
>
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