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env - read the value of environment variables

Synopsis

  • Allows you to query the environment variables available on the controller when you invoked Ansible.

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Configuration
Comments
_terms
required
Environment variable or list of them to lookup the values for

Examples

- debug: msg="{{ lookup('env','HOME') }} is an environment variable"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Key
Returned
Description
_list
list
values from the environment variables.



Status

Author

  • Jan-Piet Mens (@jpmens) <jpmens(at)gmail.com>

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