Issuew when doing a When conditional with win_copy

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Hello all,
I am trying to do a conditional based on the output of a win_shell. When I run this it’s as if it doesn’t see the conditional and copies to to all inventory not just what is coming back as True. Any ideas?

2

Your when statement, needs to be indented to the same level as win_copy, not the same level as dest. Also it needs to be the lowercased when

3

Matt, I now see it is attempting it but I get and erroron win_copy:{
“msg”: “The conditional check ‘ansible_facts[‘results.stdout’] == "True"’ failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (ansible_facts[‘results.stdout’] == "True"): ‘dict object’ has no attribute ‘results.stdout’\n\nThe error appears to be in ‘/var/lib/awx/projects/_8__test_project/Win_Feature_SQL.yml’: line 11, column 6, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n output: "{{ results.stdout }}"\n - win_copy:\n ^ here\n”,
“_ansible_no_log”: false
}

I do see my results from win_shell though:

{
“changed”: false,
“ansible_facts”: {
“output”: “True\n”
},
“_ansible_no_log”: false
}

4

results.stdout is not a literal variable name. Instead what you are likely looking for is:

when: results.stdout|trim == ‘True’

or since you use set_fact in between, it could also be:

when: output|trim == ‘True’

5

That worked, Thanks for the help Matt. Much appreciated