yeah, I thought of that, but my powershell scripting experience is minimal,
i was hoping to be able to "escape" my way to an answer. Will try the
powershell approach.
Thanks Jon!
Tony
On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 1:10:36 AM UTC-4, jhawkesworth wrote:
>
> That's a tough one. There are lot of parsers to keep happy - python,
> yaml, jinja2 and powershell as well.
>
> Just wondering if you could wrap the command line into another .bat or
> .ps1 file and then just run the wrapper and dodge a lot of the parsing
> perhaps?
>
> Jon
>
> On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 6:22:02 PM UTC, Tony Walsh wrote:
>>
>> Never mind....the syntax-checker passes but ansible still can't find the
>> file....sigh.....
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 2:17:00 PM UTC-4, Tony Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>> Folks
>>>
>>> I would like to implement the following command via ansible's
>>> win_command module:
>>>
>>> *%comspec% /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" amd64*
>>>
>>> I have tried everything I can think of, but the syntax checker always
>>> returns
>>>
>>> *"changed": false,*
>>> * "cmd": "%%comspec%% /k \"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual
>>> Studio 12.0\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat\" amd64",*
>>> * "failed": true,*
>>> * "invocation": {*
>>> * "module_name": "win_command"*
>>> * },*
>>> * "msg": "The system cannot find the file specified",*
>>> * "rc": 2*
>>> *}*
>>>
>>> or some variation thereof. For example, I've tried single quotes around
>>> single percents with double quotes inside:
>>>
>>> * win_command: '**%comspec% /k \"C:\\Program Files
>>> (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat\" amd64'*
>>>
>>> I've tried it with and without the double-backslashes. Pretty much
>>> every combination I can think of (except the right one!)
>>>
>>> Anybody got an idea of how to escape this puppy so that the syntax
>>> checker doesn't gak?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>
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