Document lineinfile regexp gotcha (#47912)
You typically want the lineinfile module to operate in an indempotent way, similar to using "sed -i", so your regexp needs to match the line to edit both before and after the edit, otherwise on a second run the regexp will no longer match the original text line and you will end up with a second copy of the replacement line at the top/bottom of the file.
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- If the regular expression is not matched, the line will be
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added to the file in keeping with`insertbefore` or `insertafter`
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- When modifying a line the regexp should typically match both the initial state of
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the line as well as its state after replacement by C(line) to ensure idempotence.
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- Uses Python regular expressions. See U(http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html).
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