Copy multiple files in playbooks

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I want to copy multiple files in playbooks, Currently i’m doing one by one

  • name: Copy tomcat to target server
    copy: src=files/apache-tomcat-7.0.61.tar.gz dest=/tmp/apache-tomcat-7.0.61.tar.gz owner=root group=azureuser mode=0644
    when: ansible_os_family == ‘Suse’ or ansible_os_family == ‘RedHat’

  • name: Copy file1 to target server
    copy: src=files/file1 dest=/opt/file1 owner=azureuser group=root mode=0644
    when: ansible_os_family == ‘Suse’ or ansible_os_family == ‘RedHat’

Is there a way to copy it recursively for many files with different destinations similar to below

  • name: Install necessary package group
    yum: name=“{{ item }}” state=present
    with_items:
  • “libselinux-python”
  • “git”
  • “ksh”
  • “httpd”
  • “java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel”
    when: ansible_os_family == ‘RedHat’
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many ways, you could do something like:

copy: src={{item}} dest={{item|replace('files/','')}}
with_fileglob: files/*/*

or using the pipe lookup for more complex finds.