Unarchive nested zip file from local to remote directory

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Hello everyone,

How in easiest way can I unarchive .zip file, with nested structure, from local to remote directory? Example below:

Local directory:

~/pack.zip
└── pack
├── bin
│ ├── file1
│ └── file2
├── conf
│ ├── file3
│ └── file4
└── lib
├── file5
└── file6

And I want to unarchive pack to 3 remote directories:
~/bin
├── file1
└── file2
~/conf
├── file3
└── file4
~/lib
├── file5
└── file6

Problem is that I have an nested directory ‘pack’, so when I just use unarchive module I getting:
~/pack
├── bin
│ ├── file1
│ └── file2
├── conf
│ ├── file3
│ └── file4
└── lib
├── file5
└── file6

Unfortunately unix unzip package doesn’t contain –strip-components option.

Additionally ansible remote_src parameter doesn’t support recursive copying, co I can’t unpack zip archive to the /tmp directory and next copy all 3 directories (bin, conf and lib) to my remote home folder.

Theoretically I can use

unzip -j pack.zip 'pack/bin/*' -d binunzip -j pack.zip 'pack/conf/*' -d conf unzip -j pack.zip 'pack/lib/*' -d lib
or simple move those three directories to the destination folder, but this is beyond ansible solution.

Do you have any idea?

2

You can’t. Ansible just calls the appropriate uncompress application, in this case, unzip. You can’t do what you want in unzip, so Ansible can’t do it.

3

Sometimes the only solution is to use the shell or the command module.