Is there a way to copy multiple files with a single command? The copy module doesn’t seem to handle “*.conf” for example. I often want to deploy an entire folder containing multiple files and it would be tedious to have to specify each file individually. Is there a way to do this? (I know there is the git module, but in many cases that would be over-kill.)
Dan
I have use rsync with a local_action for something similar, but yes a "copy directory" or even an rsync module would be nice.
tasks:
- name: install prereqs for ansible
action: apt pkg=$item
with_items:
- python-yaml
- python-paramiko
- python-jinja2
- name: create /export directory
action: command mkdir -p /export/ansible creates=/export/ansible
- name: rsync (push) ansible
local_action: command rsync --delete -uaSHAXEx /export/ansible/ansible $inventory_hostname:/export/ansible
There's an outstanding pull request for making copy recursive if the
source is a directory.
You can use with_fileglob to have copy module iterate over the *.conf
Brian Coca
Just to be clear, that pull request will follow folders as well if it’s in the source directory?