copy remote files to remote directory

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Hi,

I’d like to copy (on a remote system) a file from one directory to another.

What I’m doing is:

– tasks:
– name: copy remote file to local
fetch:
src: “/etc/resolve.conf”
dest": “/tmp/”
owner: root
group: root
mode: ‘0644’
flat: yes

  • name:
    copy:
    src: “/tmp/resolve.conf”
    dest: “/chroot/etc/”
    owner: root
    group: root
    mode: ‘0644’

While this works, I’m wondering if there’s something a bit less indirect? I’ve looked at
file: but it can only do symlinks(soft ,hard) and create directories and files. From what I see,
it can’t copy a file from dir to another. Or have I misread something?

Thanks

Ed

2

I somehow missed remote_src. My apologies.

3

Hi,
fetch module doesn’t owner and group parameters, please revisit the ansible-doc.

EXAMPLES:

  • name: Store file into /tmp/fetched/host.example.com/tmp/somefile
    fetch:
    src: /tmp/somefile
    dest: /tmp/fetched

  • name: Specifying a path directly
    fetch:
    src: /tmp/somefile
    dest: /tmp/prefix-{{ inventory_hostname }}
    flat: yes

  • name: Specifying a destination path
    fetch:
    src: /tmp/uniquefile
    dest: /tmp/special/
    flat: yes

  • name: Storing in a path relative to the playbook
    fetch:
    src: /tmp/uniquefile
    dest: special/prefix-{{ inventory_hostname }}
    flat: yes

Thanks
Lakshminarayanan. R

4

no problem