Solution: Reading a File with Ansible

Look at the solution to the previous exercise.

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---
- name: Exercise
  hosts: all
  vars:
    myfile: "/proc/cpuinfo"
  tasks:
    - name: Get the content of the cpuinfo
      ansible.builtin.slurp:
        src: "{{ myfile }}"
      register: file_details

    - name: Display cpuinfo
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        msg: "{{ file_details.content | b64decode }}"
Code to read the cpuinfo file

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