Ansible: Insert line if not exists

Question

I\'m trying insert a line in a property file using ansible. I want to add some property if it does not exist, but not replace it if such property already exists in the file.

Answer 1

Ok, here is mine naive solution... probably not a cross-platform and native Ansible (I've just started to use this tool and still learn it), but definitely shorter:

- name: Update /path/to/some/file
  shell: grep -q 'regex' /path/to/some/file && echo exists || echo 'text-to-append' >> /path/to/some/file
  register: result
  changed_when: result.stdout.find('exists') == -1