From ec80066cee5a6cc1b30f4144b1ef6a3ad4670992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:24:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #5679: lineinfile ignores newline in line argument

---
 files/lineinfile | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/files/lineinfile b/files/lineinfile
index 82658cae654..e05652a1f9b 100644
--- a/files/lineinfile
+++ b/files/lineinfile
@@ -348,7 +348,11 @@ def main():
         if ins_bef is None and ins_aft is None:
             ins_aft = 'EOF'
 
-        present(module, dest, params['regexp'], params['line'],
+        # Replace the newline character with an actual newline. Don't replace
+		# escaped \\n, hence sub and not str.replace.
+        line = re.sub(r'\n', os.linesep, params['line'])
+
+        present(module, dest, params['regexp'], line,
                 ins_aft, ins_bef, create, backup, backrefs)
     else:
         if params['regexp'] is None and params.get('line', None) is None: