I think you probably want to url encode that instead of just trying to escape those characters.
http://cijboss:8080/jenkins/job/prod/186/org.myorg%5C%24ear/artifact/org.org/ear/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ear-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Ter Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a playbook that calls get_url to download a file BUT the URL > contains a backslash > > > http://cijboss:8080/jenkins/job/prod/186/org.myorg\$ear/artifact/org.org/ear/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ear-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear > " > I have tried double quotes, single quotes, \ escape sequences, etc. Have > tried the many things found in Jinja2 and YAML escaping documents and > nothing works. When I feed the URL through an ad hoc command, it downloads > the file just fine. > > ansible <server> -m get_url -u user -a " > http://cijboss:8080/jenkins/job/prod/186/org.myorg\$ear/artifact/org.org/ear/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ear-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear"; > dest=/home/user" > Each time the playbook runs, the url contains a double backslash. How does > one properly escape this? > > Update: Below is the yml playbook file. > > --- > - hosts: jboss > remote_user: jboss > tasks: > - name: Get Ear file > get_url: url=" > http://cijboss:8080/jenkins/job/prod/186/org.myorg\$ear/artifact/org.org/ear/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ear-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear"; > dest=/home/jboss mode=0755 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/c4750744-60f1-4c2c-af94-bc1f0d1a778d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/c4750744-60f1-4c2c-af94-bc1f0d1a778d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Matt Martz @sivel sivel.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAD8N0v_rA7yhqMe%3Dx8KtcOtqG9rDrOj9Tc8-JbbsAXHGKz%2BbhQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
