In Ansible, how do I add a line to the end of a file?

Question

I would expect this to be pretty simple. I\'m using the lineinfile module like so:

- name: Update bashrc for PythonBrew for foo user
  lineinfil         


        

Answer 1

Apparently ansible has matured and now (version >2.4.0) according to the documentation, The defaults when only the line is specified will append a given line to the destination file:

    - name: Update bashrc for PythonBrew for foo user
      lineinfile:
        dest: /home/foo/.bashrc
        line: "[[ -s ${pythonbrew.bashrc_path} ]] && source {pythonbrew.bashrc_path}"
        owner: foo

Answer 2

The Ansible discussion group helped get me sorted out on this. The problem is the regexp parameter.

Since I only want the line appended to the file once, I need the regexp to match the line as closely as possible. This is complicated in my case by the fact that my line includes variables. But, assuming the line started [[ -s $HOME/.pythonbrew, I found the following to be sufficient:

- name: Update bashrc for PythonBrew for foo user
  lineinfile:
    dest: /home/foo/.bashrc
    line: "[[ -s ${pythonbrew.bashrc_path} ]] && source ${pythonbrew.bashrc_path}"
    regexp: "^\[\[ -s \\$HOME/\.pythonbrew"
    owner: foo
    state: present
    insertafter: EOF
    create: True