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Daniel Avoyan
Daniel Avoyan

Reputation: 53

Ansible moving files

I am creating a role to deploy Jira instance. My question is, how I can move files from one directory to another, I was trying something like this:

- name: Create Jira installation directory
  command: mv "/tmp/atlassian-jira-software-{{ jira_version }}-standalone/*" "{{ installation_directory }}"
  when: not is_jira_installed.stat.exists

But It's not working, I want to copy all files from one directory to another without copying the directory.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1618

Answers (1)

β.εηοιτ.βε
β.εηοιτ.βε

Reputation: 39264

From the synopsis of the command module:

The command(s) will not be processed through the shell, so variables like $HOSTNAME and operations like "*", "<", ">", "|", ";" and "&" will not work. Use the ansible.builtin.shell module if you need these features.

So, your issue is the fact that the command module is not expanding the wildcard *, as you expect it, you should be using the shell module instead:

- name: Create Jira installation directory
  shell: "mv /tmp/atlassian-jira-software-{{ jira_version }}-standalone/* {{ installation_directory }}"
  when: not is_jira_installed.stat.exists

Now, please note that you can also make this without having to resort to a command or shell, by using the copy module.

- copy:
    src: "/tmp/atlassian-jira-software-{{ jira_version }}-standalone/"
    dest: "{{ installation_directory }}"
    remote_src: yes

Upvotes: 2

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