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=External=
=External=


* http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/shell_module.html
* https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/shell_module.html


=Internal=
=Internal=


* [[Ansible_Concepts#shell|Ansible Concepts]]
* [[Ansible_Concepts#shell|Ansible Concepts]]
=Example=
<syntaxhighlight lang='bash'>
ansible -i ./hosts -b --become-user=root all -m shell -a 'ls -al'
</syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang='yaml'>
- name: IDEA application histories
  shell: "cat \"{{ item.path }}\""
  with_items: "{{ some_var | list }}"
  register: some_other_var
  changed_when: false
</syntaxhighlight>
<code>shell</code> can be used to run complex shell pipelines, set/unset environment variables in the execution environment, etc:
<syntaxhighlight lang='yaml'>
- name: test shell
  shell: "{ unset JAVA_HOME; /usr/libexec/java_home -v 11; }"
  register: execution_result
</syntaxhighlight>

Latest revision as of 19:43, 12 July 2021

External

Internal

Example

ansible -i ./hosts -b --become-user=root all -m shell -a 'ls -al'
- name: IDEA application histories
  shell: "cat \"{{ item.path }}\""
  with_items: "{{ some_var | list }}"
  register: some_other_var
  changed_when: false

shell can be used to run complex shell pipelines, set/unset environment variables in the execution environment, etc:

- name: test shell
  shell: "{ unset JAVA_HOME; /usr/libexec/java_home -v 11; }"
  register: execution_result