I would like to be able use jq to parse output from ansible -m setup command, but I cannot figure out how to get rid of the non-json output:
192.132.1.1 | SUCCESS => {"ansible_facts": ...
How can I suppress the 192.132.1.1 | SUCCESS => output?
I could not find any native flag in the ansible command to suppress the non-json part of the output. Here is the regex based removal of undesired string:
ansible -m setup localhost | sed -r '1s/^.*?=> //g'
Above command would remove the strings like below from the output and the remaining would be a valid JSON.
localhost | SUCCESS => {
or
localhost | FAILED! =>
Eg: Test should jq is happy with the resulted output:
ansible -m setup localhost |sed -r '1s/^.*?=> //g'|jq -e . &>/dev/null; echo $?
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