Hi All,

I am running ansible playbook using ssh command but in that command I am not able to pass the parameter as it is not taking the space between the string, it accepting the first character and skipping the next as there is one space between that.

ssh user_name@host_ip -C /usr/bin/ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface Gi1/0/16"' --limit $query_baselocation-$query_sublocation-$query_building >& /tmp/test.log

As you can see above it is taking only the "Interface" as parameter and not the "Gi1/0/16"

I checked with ansible forum as well but it is not the ansible issue as because when I am running this command without using ssh it is working fine.

Looking forward for your reply.

Thanks & Regards
Sumit Sahay

you might need to escape that space using one or two backslashes.

Sometimes when you're doing a command within a command within a command one layer strips off the quoting for its use so it doesn't get passed to the next layer.

It may be doing something as simple as putting another level of quotes around it will help:
Sometimes you have to get more creative by escaping quotes to make them get passed literally:
It may be you have to quote even more of what you're passing.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

ssh user_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc=""interface Gi1/0/16/""' --limit BNG-TMEC-ITC5

while running this I am getting this as below

ERROR! the playbook: Gi1/0/16/ could not be found as it is taking "Interface" only no the character after space.

ssh user_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface Gi1/0/16/"' --limit BNG-TMEC-ITC5

I am getting this error,

ERROR! the playbook: Gi1/0/16/" could not be found

As in parameter I am unable to pass the space between string.

Please suggest me for this issue.

Looking forward for your reply.

Thanks & Regards
Sumit Sahay

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I used as suggested by you as below,

ssh user_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface\\Gi1/0/16/"' --limit host_name

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [host_ip] => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "interface\\Gi1/0/16/"

}

ssh user_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface\Gi1/0/16/"' --limit host_name

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [host_ip] => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "interface\\Gi1/0/16/"
}

Looking forward for your reply.

Thanks & Regards
Sumit Sahay

I can't see the space in your last post.

Looks like a quoting problem.
Perhaps put the entire command in double quotes (so that $query can still be interpreted) and escape the space character in the extra variable setting.

Hi,

I am using following command like below,

ssh user_name@host_ip -C
ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface Gi1/0/16/"' --limit host_name

As you can see there is one space between interface and Gi1/0/16/

When I am running the command it is taking only interface as parameter and not the full string.

Looking forward for your suggestion.

Thanks & Regards
Sumit Sahay

see post #2

ssh user_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface\\Gi1/0/16/"'
--limit host_name

Output:
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [host_ip] => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "interface\\Gi1/0/16/"
}

ssh user_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface\Gi1/0/16/"' --limit host_name

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [host_ip] => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "interface\\Gi1/0/16/"
}

this is what I am getting while adding one or more backslash.

Looking forward for your suggestion.

Regards
Sumit Sahay

see post #6
Where is the space now (between interface and Gi1/0/16/)?

ssh usr_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface Gi1/0/16/"' --limit host_name



TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [host_ip] => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "interface"
}

If we pass the space between interface and Gi1/0/16 it is taking interface and skipping Gi1/0/16.


Looking forward for your suggestion.


Regards
Sumit Sahay

Don't replace the space with \\. Put \\ to the left of the space, but keep the space like this: \\<space>

OP. You're getting good advice here, but you need to put your commands and outputs in [code] tags to preserve the spacings.

Thanks for your reply.

I did as you suggested in this post, like this I did

ssh user_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface\\<space> Gi1/0/16/"' --limit host_name

Output
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [host_ip] => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "interface\"
}

ssh user_name@host_ip -C ansible-playbook -i ./hosts /ansibleplaybooks/switch_conf_desc.yml -e'switch_desc="interface\\ Gi1/0/16/"' --limit host_name

Output
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [host_ip] => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "interface\"
}


Looking for your suggestions.

Regards
Sumit Sahay