knowledge/technology/tools/Ansible/lookups/ansible.builtin.file.md

ansible.builtin.file

This lookup returns the contents from a file on the Ansible controller’s file system.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
Input	string / required	path(s) of files to read
lstrip	boolean	whether or not to remove whitespace from the beginning of the looked-up file
rstrip	boolean	whether or not to remove whitespace from the ending of the looked-up file

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "the value of foo.txt is {{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', '/etc/foo.txt') }}"

- name: display multiple file contents
  ansible.builtin.debug: var=item
  with_file:
    - "/path/to/foo.txt"
    - "bar.txt"  # will be looked in files/ dir relative to play or in role
    - "/path/to/biz.txt"