Ansible – Save registered variable to file

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Thanks to tmoschou for adding this comment to an outdated accepted answer:

As of Ansible 2.10, The documentation for ansible.builtin.copy says: 

If you need variable interpolation in copied files, use the
ansible.builtin.template module. Using a variable in the content field will
result in unpredictable output.

For more details see this and an explanation

Original answer:

You can use the copy module, with the parameter content=.

I gave the exact same answer here: Write variable to a file in Ansible

In your case, it looks like you want this variable written to a local logfile, so you could combine it with the local_action notation:

- local_action: copy content={{ foo_result }} dest=/path/to/destination/file

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