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unvault

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin
Added in version 2.10.

Synopsis

  • This lookup returns the contents from vaulted (or not) file(s) on the Ansible controller's file system.

Parameters

Parameter Defaults / Choices Comments
_terms
required
path(s) of files to read

Notes

Note

  • This lookup does not understand 'globbing' nor shell environment variables.

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug: msg="the value of foo.txt is {{ lookup('ansible.builtin.unvault', '/etc/foo.txt') | string | trim }}"

Return Values

Key Data Type Description Returned
_raw list content of file(s) as bytes

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team