I would like to create a playbook that reads a local file to a var, Then be able to loop through this var line by line and use the lines in a task.
To get the file content i used:
file_contents: "{{lookup('file', './myfile.txt')}}"
I tried using:
But I did not get the result i wanted.
any help would be appreciated.
You can use Python built-ins for some types, like strings, for example.
So this will do the trick for you:
file_contents_lines: "{{ lookup('file', './aaa.txt').splitlines() }}"
and
with_items: "{{ file_contents_lines }}"