Perl, Awk or other?

I had some quickie output from an ad hoc Ansible command. I love Ansible! The data was quick to acquire and accurate. But the readability was not optimal. "Hmmm...", I thought, "It'd be good enough if it just separated the data elements with a space." Actually, this comes up a lot with my quickie ad hoc Ansible reports so I do what I always do: Perl!

That worked perfectly but it was so simple I thought it should be a one-liner. BTW, I really enjoyed Peteris Krumins' Sed, Awk and Perl one-liner books. I bought them all in PDF and then bought the pretty No Starch Press version of Perl One-Liners (makes a great coffee table book - I just pick it up and open it to any page and I'm intrigued - Fun!) So, I took a stab at it. It worked perfectly the first time but it was really just my same program in one-liner format. So here it is. If you have a more elegant solution let me know.

  perl -pe 'if (m/SUCCESS/) {print "\n$_"} else {print $_} ' JavaReport.txt

P.S. The I tried Awk:

 awk '/SUCCESS/ { print "\n" } {print}' JavaReport.txt  

(although this isn't quite right)

Ansible Playbook and Perl (or 'Salted MD5 - Yummo!')

Not much of an article here - just some notes about encrypting passwords for Ansible playbooks.  All of the examples for adding the encrypted passwords to the ansible playbook are Python (what's up with that?!) :-)

So, I have an example of a playbook to change a user password on all ansible systems and I have translated the password encryption field for Perl (you're welcome!)

Here's my chgUserPW.yml:

---
- hosts: all
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
  - name: Change user1 password
    # Created passwd with:
    # perl -e 'print crypt("your pw here","\$6\$salt\$")'
    # Notes: password, 6 = md5, salt = random string to salt entropy
    user: name=user1 update_password=always password=$6$salt$sjuT2.eSTcX/vKwW7RlB1tdLxyB34lJSsndXA5yzC7BZrdAkiAOqtf4NPtHa0tjdFa/5wcS1.vt0LAwzEassr0

All you do is run the Perl one-liner adding your own password and salt string (the word "salt" is probably not a good choice) and you get the format for the password Linux is expecting (salted MD5).  Paste that into the password field and you can now change all of your system's user1 passwords to "your pw here".

*Disclaimer - I'd try it on a single system first, preferably one you have a backdoor root account on.  It worked for me.  Good luck!