From 3f4ac0b9f774ade3cae66e46ac6ce1e23727706e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathaniel Case <ncase@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:03:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for whitespace padding on JSON responses

Fixes #17825, closes #17829
---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/shell.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/shell.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/shell.py
index 2f30f58a06..9b096b249f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/shell.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/shell.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ class Shell(object):
     def sanitize(self, cmd, resp):
         cleaned = []
         for line in resp.splitlines():
-            if line.startswith(str(cmd)) or self.find_prompt(line):
+            if line.lstrip().startswith(str(cmd)) or self.find_prompt(line):
                 continue
             cleaned.append(line)
         return "\n".join(cleaned)