Help understanding the copy module's "validate" parameter

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Pretty sure I need to use the validate parameter in a copy task but am unclear on how to use it.

Here’s my copy task for context:

`

`

  • copy: src={{ item }} dest=/home/vagrant/.drush/{{ boxname }}.aliases.drushrc.php
    `

with_fileglob:

  • …/…/settings/drush_aliases/*
    notify: drush cc drush
    when: php_install is defined and php_install == “y”
    tags: drush_aliases

`

I guess the only bit we need to focus on here is:

`

  • copy: src={{ item }} dest=/home/vagrant/.drush/{{ boxname }}.aliases.drushrc.php

with_fileglob:

  • …/…/settings/drush_aliases/*

`

I’d like to make sure that only certain files can be copied from …/…/settings/drush_aliases/*

Things like:

  1. Only files with a .php extension
  2. Only 1 file can be copied (fail if the directory contains multiple)
    Any pointers on how I might achieve this?
2

Hi,

validate is for basically running things like visudo against a sudoers file before finally copying it in place over the file. This wouldn’t be a good fit here.

It seems that what you would want to do, instead, is adapt your fileglob to only accept those files, or instead, name those files explicitly.

Sort of make sense?

Thanks!

3

Not sure why I didn’t think of that! Thanks.