# \[feature request\] module assemble

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-module-assemble/18572>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 23, 2015, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-module-assemble/18572 "2015-06-23T08:58:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![wojtas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/edb3f5/32.png) [@wojtas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/wojtas)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-module-assemble/18572/1 "2015-06-23T08:58:40Z")

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Hi,  
Is there any possibility to add now feature to assemble?  
I would like have smt like mix of subversion and assemble.  
Config files are kept in SVN and make from one folder a single file.  
playbook can look like that

- hosts: all  
tasks:
- assemble:  
src=repo+http://svn.example.com/svn/backup\_config/ username=USER password=PASS  
dest=/etc/cron.d/backup\_disk

or even a normal http recursive request will good to ( but please notice the htbasic ).

Thanks from advice.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-module-assemble/18572/2 "2015-06-23T14:02:52Z")

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or just use 2 tasks, svn task to checkout files, assemble task to use them?

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**Author:** ![wojtas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/edb3f5/32.png) [@wojtas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/wojtas)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-module-assemble/18572/3 "2015-06-29T11:43:53Z")

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Hi Brian  
Yes i did smt like that, but i have a problem with file lookup’s.  
What I want to make is

- checkout repo (simple)
- root is static (assmble from /SVN\_PATH/keys/root/\* to /root/.ssh/auth\_keys)
- for $(ls -1 /SVN\_PATH/keys/ |grep -v root) ;do assemble /home/username\_from\_for\_loop/.ssh/auth\_keys;done  
(that is tricky one and i have no idea how can manage to do that).

Can You help me with that, please ?

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-module-assemble/18572/4 "2015-06-29T12:49:43Z")

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lookup('pipe','ls -1 /SVN\_PATH/keys/ |grep -v root') ?

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**Author:** ![wojtas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/edb3f5/32.png) [@wojtas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/wojtas)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-module-assemble/18572/5 "2015-06-29T13:05:16Z")

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Hi,  
THX for quick answer  
Sorry I’m sill beginner in ansible,  
But is it possible to combine that with some loop?  
In [https://docs.ansible.com/playbooks\_loops.html](https://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html) i can’t see example like that  
shout i use a nested (with\_nested:) because it will look like  
/SVN\_PATH/keys/root  
/SVN\_PATH/keys/deploy  
/SVN\_PATH/keys/ubuntu  
/SVN\_PATH/keys/…

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-module-assemble/18572/6 "2015-06-29T21:32:09Z")

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All lookups can be invoked in 2 forms lookup('\<lookup\>' ,. .... or  
with\_\<lookup\>, they are the same thing.

so you can use with\_pipe: