How to force ansible to use bash instead of sh

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I need to source the /root/.bash_profile during shell module execution thru ssh, but currently ansible only use sh, so lead to the error.

So anyway to tell ansible to load full user profile (bash)?

Thanks.

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Generally speaking, it’s better to use the environment: directive in Ansible rather than relying on a user’s shell, because you don’t know what will be in that shell script, and the point is centralized management that is consistent.

Example:

get_url: arguments go here
environment:
HTTP_PROXY: http://proxy.example.com:8080/

(this can also use variable names as references)

That all being said, you also have the executable option to the shell and command modules, as detailed here:

http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html#shell