Ansible Win_command

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Hi All,
I need help in executing batch file which has some prompts.
Am using following lines of script

  • name: run an executable with custom working dir
    win_command: pisrvstop.bat /argument1 “/argument 2 with space”
    args:
    chdir: F:\Program Files\PI\adm
    async: 120
    poll: 5

it works fine but it will not answer for the prompts. How do i set the answers for prompt?

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May the expect module be useful for you?

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Ansible modules are designed to be run in a non-interactive fashion, you won’t receive the prompt on the controller as that’s just not how Ansible works. You also won’t be able to use expect for Windows as that is a Python module. Your best bet is to the use stdin option for win_command to send data over the stdin pipe. This is a very basic mechanism but if all you need to do is type ‘y’ then send y over stdin.

Thanks

Jordan

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Jordan,

Thanks for the detailed description. Actually am working on stopping services which has dependencies just like service A dependent on Service B, am having issue in this scenario. Can you please give some info on stopping dependencies as well?

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Thanks for the info. I look into it.