I have a command that takes arguments in the form: mycommand --myarg1=myargvalue --myarg2=‘{“mytags”: [{“myint1”: 12345, “mystr1”: “fubarbaz”}]}’ I created one variable with “–myarg1=myargvalue”. That works fine. I created a second variable with the entire dictionary-list-of-dictionary as a strin…

Hey @rustydraper ! Welcome to The Forum. [image] rustydraper: I then attempted to combine multiple variables by creating a dictionary, assigning the dictionary as a single element list, and placed that inside another dictionary. You could make it a lot easier for us to help you if you show u…

A common issue is that the short form of calling the command and shell modules introduces an additional layer of parsing. It is significantly more robust to use the cmd argument, e.g instead of: - command: echo hello world you should write - command: cmd: echo hello world It’s slightly more …

A minimal example playbook --- - hosts: localhost become: false gather_facts: false tasks: - name: Pass arguments command: cmd: | echo \ --myarg1=myargvalue \ --myarg2='{"mytags": [{"myint1": 12345, "mystr1": "fubarbaz"}]}' register: res…

Thank you to all who responded. I was able to get my playbook working using the scaler variable syntax demonstrated in one of the responses. Russell Draper rusty.draper@mindspring.com

I wasn’t aware of this, shouldn’t the examples be updated to reflect this? Examples - ansible.builtin.command module – Execute commands on targets —... Note

Shouldn’t we use the option argv ? # argv (list) arguments, each argument on a separate line, 'args' keyword not necessary # 'argv' is a parameter, indented one level from the module - name: Use 'argv' to send a command as a list - leave 'command' empty ansible.builtin.command: argv: - …

Depends what you want to do and how readable the result is; both cmd and argv have their places and each can be better than the other depending on the context. As soon as you template parameters or have some with complex values, argv can be the better choice - but of course you can also use the appr…

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chris (Chris Croome) January 16, 2026, 4:13pm 6

I wasn’t aware of this, shouldn’t the examples be updated to reflect this?

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