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Reputation: 6320

Ansible: Run an interactive Bash script locally just runs through

I have an interactive build script, which contains sections like this:

echo "Is this correct?"
select yn in "Yes" "No"; do
    case $yn in
        Yes ) break;;
        No ) exit;;
    esac
done

If I run the script on its own (./runscript.sh), then I get correctly prompted.

But if I run the Bash script from inside Ansible, like this:

  tasks:
    - name: Run script
      shell: "./runscript.sh {{ param1 }} {{ param2 }} {{ param3 }}"
      args:
          chdir: "../../path/to/script/"
      run_once: true
      delegate_to: localhost

Then this thing just runs through and I get no prompt, and I have no idea what's going on. Did it complete? How, with what settings? Does it just always implicitly assume a "YES"?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 723

Answers (1)

lainatnavi
lainatnavi

Reputation: 1613

The shell module execution is failing. If you print the rc of the script execution it should be different from 0. The reason is that the shell module runs the command through a shell (/bin/sh), while select is a Bash construct.

Upvotes: 2

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