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RCat
RCat

Reputation: 169

Ansible shell command -a with special characters "

I´m using ansible -a command to execute on my inventory some tastsk (df -h, check folders...). But now, I need to create a user on all the hosts.

I´m using the following command:

ansible -i [INVENTORYNAME].inventory allservers -m shell -a "sudo useradd -c "Name & lastname" [USERNAME]" >> [FILE].txt --extra-vars "ansible_sudo_pass=[MYPASS]" -b

But it doesn´t work. How can I include special characters in my commands?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4726

Answers (1)

Thanh
Thanh

Reputation: 66

Your current command has nested double quotes.

You can either use single quotes outside:

ansible -i inventory all -m shell -a 'sudo useradd -c "Name & lastname" [USERNAME]' >> [FILE].txt --extra-vars "ansible_sudo_pass=[MYPASS]" -b

or escape the double quotes inside:

ansible -i inventory all -m shell -a "sudo useradd -c \"Name & lastname\" [USERNAME]" >> [FILE].txt --extra-vars "ansible_sudo_pass=[MYPASS]" -b

The second options will allow you to include environment variables from the machine executing the Ansible command (your PC).

As a side note, I highly recommend using the user module.
sudo is also redundant if you use -b

Upvotes: 3

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