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Gaurang Shah
Gaurang Shah

Reputation: 12930

Ansible playbook create relative link

Could someone let me know how to create a relative symlink.

I have files under following folder.

/usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test-1.2.3.jar

And I was to create link in this folder which points to this jar. something like

test.jar -> test-1.2.3.jar

However with following ansible code, it takes absolute path.

  - name: create soft link
    file:
        src: "/usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test-1.2.3.jar"
        dest: "/usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test.jar"
        state: link
        force: yes

outout

test.jar -> /usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test-1.2.3.jar

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1132

Answers (2)

Vladimir Botka
Vladimir Botka

Reputation: 68294

Try this


  - name: create soft link
    file:
      src: test-1.2.3.jar
      path: /usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test.jar
      state: link
      force: true

Quoting from the parameter src:

Relative paths are relative to the file being created (path) which is how the Unix command ln -s SRC DEST treats relative paths.

Note: The parameter force is needed when:

  • the path file does not exist
  • the src exists and is a file

Unfortunately, the wording in the docs is misleading:

Force the creation of the symlinks in two cases: the source file does not exist (but will appear later); the destination exists and is a file (so, we need to unlink the path file and create symlink to the src file in place of it).

Upvotes: 4

Venu S
Venu S

Reputation: 3691

you can try the shell module instead. In your case, if is taking the absolute path, because thats how source and destination are given.

- name: Create a Symlink
  shell:
    cmd: ln -s test-1.2.3.jar test.jar
    chdir: /usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/

Upvotes: 1

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