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Team,

Can someone provide me solution to copy all source /tmp/*.exe files to local Ansible machine.

I tried below solution but its not working.

  • name: example copying file with owner and permissions
    fetch:
    src: /tmp/*.exe
    dest: /tmp/test/
    flat: yes
    owner: root
    group: root
    mode: 0777
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Please describe what do you mean by not working. Do you get any error message? Describe the expected and actual results.

3

Based on v2.8, I don’t think you can wildcard filenames with fetch and it doesn’t seem to have owner, group or mode parameters (like copy) either. I think this discussion about a “wrapper” script or using the alternative synchronise module may help with your particular query though?:

https://serverfault.com/questions/691080/how-to-fetch-multiple-files-from-remote-machine-to-local-with-ansible

Also, this link with all module details:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_all_modules.html

Regards

Phil

4

Hi ,

  Thanks, following syntax worked for me.

- name: use find to get the files list which you want to copy/fetch
      find:
        paths: /tmp/
        patterns: ".*exe"
        use_regex: True
      register: file_2_fetch

    - name: use fetch to get the files
      fetch:
        src: "{{ item.path }}"
        dest: /tmp/
        flat: yes
      with_items: "{{ file_2_fetch.files }}"

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