Fix literal block multiline parsing

Fixes #8394

test/integration/roles/test_command_shell/tasks/main.yml

@@ -168,3 +168,23 @@
   assert:
     that:
       - "shell_result4.changed == False"
+
+- name: execute a shell command using a literal multiline block
+  shell: |
+    echo this is a
+    "multiline echo"
+    "with a new line
+    in quotes"
+    | md5sum
+    | tr -s ' '
+    | cut -f1 -d ' '
+  register: shell_result5
+
+- debug: var=shell_result5
+
+- name: assert the multiline shell command ran as expected
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - "shell_result5.changed"
+      - "shell_result5.stdout == '32f3cc201b69ed8afa3902b80f554ca8'"
+

test/integration/roles/test_copy/tasks/main.yml

@@ -158,4 +158,25 @@
 - name: assert that the directory was not changed
   assert:
     that:
-      - "not copy_result5|changed"
+      - "not copy_result5|changed"
+
+# issue 8394
+- name: create a file with content and a literal multiline block
+  copy: |
+    content='this is the first line
+    this is the second line
+
+    this line is after an empty line
+    this line is the last line
+    '
+    dest={{output_dir}}/multiline.txt
+  register: copy_result6
+
+- debug: var=copy_result6
+
+- name: assert the multiline file was created correctly
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - "copy_result6.changed"
+      - "copy_result6.dest == '{{output_dir|expanduser}}/multiline.txt'"
+      - "copy_result6.md5sum == '1627d51e7e607c92cf1a502bf0c6cce3'"

test/units/TestUtils.py

@@ -705,8 +705,9 @@ class TestUtils(unittest.TestCase):
         # jinja2 loop blocks with lots of complexity
         _test_combo(
             # in memory of neighbors cat
-            'a {% if x %} y {%else %} {{meow}} {% endif %} cookiechip\ndone',
-            ['a', '{% if x %}', 'y', '{%else %}', '{{meow}}', '{% endif %}', 'cookiechip\ndone']
+            # we only preserve newlines inside of quotes
+            'a {% if x %} y {%else %} {{meow}} {% endif %} "cookie\nchip"\ndone',
+            ['a', '{% if x %}', 'y', '{%else %}', '{{meow}}', '{% endif %}', '"cookie\nchip"', 'done']
         )
 
         # test space preservation within quotes