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cisco.iosxr.iosxr_command
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**Module to run commands on remote devices.**


Version added: 1.0.0

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Synopsis
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- Sends arbitrary commands to an IOS XR node and returns the results read from the device. This module includes an argument that will cause the module to wait for a specific condition before returning or timing out if the condition is not met.
- This module does not support running commands in configuration mode. Please use :ref:`cisco.iosxr.iosxr_config <cisco.iosxr.iosxr_config_module>` to configure iosxr devices.




Parameters
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                    <b>commands</b>
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                        <div>List of commands to send to the remote iosxr device over the configured provider. The resulting output from the command is returned. If the <em>wait_for</em> argument is provided, the module is not returned until the condition is satisfied or the number of retries has expired.</div>
                        <div>If a command sent to the device requires answering a prompt, it is possible to pass a dict containing command, answer and prompt. Common answers are &#x27;y&#x27; or &quot;\r&quot; (carriage return, must be double quotes). See examples</div>
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                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">1</div>
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                        <div>Configures the interval in seconds to wait between retries of the command. If the command does not pass the specified conditions, the interval indicates how long to wait before trying the command again.</div>
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                                    <li>any</li>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>all</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
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                        <div>The <em>match</em> argument is used in conjunction with the <em>wait_for</em> argument to specify the match policy.  Valid values are <code>all</code> or <code>any</code>.  If the value is set to <code>all</code> then all conditionals in the wait_for must be satisfied.  If the value is set to <code>any</code> then only one of the values must be satisfied.</div>
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                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">10</div>
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                        <div>Specifies the number of retries a command should by tried before it is considered failed. The command is run on the target device every retry and evaluated against the <em>wait_for</em> conditions.</div>
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                        <div>List of conditions to evaluate against the output of the command. The task will wait for each condition to be true before moving forward. If the conditional is not true within the configured number of retries, the task fails. See examples.</div>
                        <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: waitfor</div>
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Notes
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.. note::
   - Make sure the user has been authorized to execute commands terminal length 0, terminal width 512 and terminal exec prompt no-timestamp.
   - This module works with ``network_cli``. See `the IOS-XR Platform Options <../network/user_guide/platform_iosxr.html>`_.
   - This module does not support ``netconf`` connection.
   - For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the :ref:`Ansible Network Guide <network_guide>`
   - For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the `Cisco integration page <https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/cisco>`_.



Examples
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.. code-block:: yaml

    - name: run show version on remote devices
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_command:
        commands: show version

    - name: run show version and check to see if output contains iosxr
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_command:
        commands: show version
        wait_for: result[0] contains IOS-XR

    - name: run multiple commands on remote nodes
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_command:
        commands:
          - show version
          - show interfaces
          - {command: example command that prompts, prompt: expected prompt, answer: true}

    - name: run multiple commands and evaluate the output
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_command:
        commands:
          - show version
          - show interfaces
        wait_for:
          - result[0] contains IOS-XR
          - result[1] contains Loopback0

    - name: 'multiple prompt, multiple answer (mandatory check for all prompts)'
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_command:
        commands:
          - command: key config-key password-encryption
            prompt:
              - 'Enter old key :'
              - 'Enter new key :'
              - 'Enter confirm key :'
            answer:
              - test1234
              - test12345
              - test12345
            check_all: true



Return Values
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Common return values are documented `here <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/common_return_values.html#common-return-values>`_, the following are the fields unique to this module:

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                <td>failed</td>
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                            <div>The list of conditionals that have failed</div>
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                        <div style="font-size: smaller"><b>Sample:</b></div>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">[&#x27;...&#x27;, &#x27;...&#x27;]</div>
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                    <b>stdout</b>
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                      <span style="color: purple">list</span>
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                <td>always apart from low level errors (such as action plugin)</td>
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                            <div>The set of responses from the commands</div>
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                        <div style="font-size: smaller"><b>Sample:</b></div>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">[&#x27;...&#x27;, &#x27;...&#x27;]</div>
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                    <b>stdout_lines</b>
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                <td>always apart from low level errors (such as action plugin)</td>
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                            <div>The value of stdout split into a list</div>
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                        <div style="font-size: smaller"><b>Sample:</b></div>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">[[&#x27;...&#x27;, &#x27;...&#x27;], [&#x27;...&#x27;], [&#x27;...&#x27;]]</div>
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Status
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Authors
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- Ricardo Carrillo Cruz (@rcarrillocruz)
