Ansible Module shell

External

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/shell_module.html

Internal

• Ansible Concepts

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