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trim spaces in ansible vairable using jinja2 if
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mytask.yaml
---
- name: My playbook
hosts: localhost
vars:
zabbix_agentd_d_dir: >-
{% if ansible_facts['os_family'] == 'RedHat' -%}
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d
{%- else -%}
/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d
{%- endif %}
tasks:
- name: Print zabbix_agentd_d_dir
debug: var=zabbix_agentd_d_dir
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$ ansible-playbook mytask.yaml

...(snip)...

TASK [Print zabbix_agentd_d_dir] *********************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "zabbix_agentd_d_dir": "/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d"
}

...(snip)...

$ head -1 /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04 LTS"

See https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#whitespace-control for - in {%- and -%}.

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another solution using Jinja2 if expression

---
- name: My playbook
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    zabbix_agentd_d_dir: "{{ '/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d' if ansible_facts['os_family'] == 'RedHat'
      else '/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d' }}"
  tasks:
    - name: Print zabbix_agentd_d_dir
      debug: var=zabbix_agentd_d_dir

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