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

Authors

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

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