Question:
I’m working in a project, and we use ansible to create a deploy a cluster of servers.
One of the tasks that I’ve to implement, is to copy a local file to the remote host, only if that file exists locally.
Now I’m trying to solve this problem using this
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- hosts: 127.0.0.1 connection: local tasks: - name: copy local filetocopy.zip to remote if exists - shell: if [[ -f "../filetocopy.zip" ]]; then /bin/true; else /bin/false; fi; register: result - copy: src=../filetocopy.zip dest=/tmp/filetocopy.zip when: result|success |
Bu this is failing with the following message:
ERROR: ‘action’ or ‘local_action’ attribute missing in task “copy local filetocopy.zip to remote if exists”
I’ve tried to create this if with command task.
I’ve already tried to create this task with a local_action, but I couldn’t make it work.
All samples that I’ve found, doesn’t consider a shell into local_action, there are only samples of command, and neither of them have anything else then a command.
Is there a way to do this task using ansible?
Answer:
Change your first step into the following on
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- name: copy local filetocopy.zip to remote if exists local_action: stat path="../filetocopy.zip" register: result |