What I am trying to accomplish:
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Get list of commands that I want to run: [db2inst1@db2server1 ~]$ locate db2ilist | grep instance /opt/ibm/db2/V10.5/instance/db2ilist /opt/ibm/db2/V11.1/instance/db2ilist
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Execute both of the commands above
First issue is that Ansible does not seem to be playing well with the locate command:
- name: Update locate database
command: /bin/updatedb
- name: Gather DB2 DB2 instances
command: /bin/locate 'db2ilist' | /bin/grep 'instance'
register: db2ilist_output
I get a rather large list of all files that have ‘instance’ in the name somewhere. I expected to only get the 2 files listed above.
Second issue is… once I have both executables inside the db2ilist_output register, how do I loop through them to execute them?
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Was able to resolve the questions with:
- name: Update locate database
command: /bin/updatedb
- name: Gather DB2 DB2 instances
shell: /bin/locate 'db2ilist' | /bin/grep 'instance'
register: db2ilist_cmd
- debug: msg="{{ db2ilist_cmd.stdout_lines }}"
- name: List each DB2 instance
command: "{{ item }}"
with_items: "{{ db2ilist_cmd.stdout_lines}}"
register: db2ilist_output
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