I may be missing the point here but is the fetch module what you need? Fetch works against windows hosts and linux hosts.
Plenty of examples in the integration tests here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/test/integration/roles/test_win_fetch/tasks/main.yml Hope this helps, Jon On Monday, 22 February 2016 02:49:55 UTC, Slim Slam wrote: > > Anyone know what the destination format would be in Powershell to target > the local desktop? > > J > > On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 12:18:09 AM UTC-6, Slim Slam wrote: >> >> More relevant discussion: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10741609/copy-file-remotely-with-powershell >> >> On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 1:51:00 PM UTC-6, Slim Slam wrote: >>> >>> I think this will work but I'd have to know how to specify the >>> destination location (my Mac laptop) in a way >>> that makes sense to Powershell Remoting. I have no clue how to do that. >>> >>> The very last answer to this stackoverflow demonstrates the methodology. >>> Any Windows/PS pros in the house? >>> >>> >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9304953/copy-files-from-remote-rdp-to-local-machine >>> >>> J >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 11:35:14 PM UTC-6, Gerald Spencer >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Line 85 >>>> <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/8d126bd877444c9557b1671521516447cc557d3f/windows/win_copy.ps1#L85> >>>> >>>> in the win_copy module is the chunk that actually copies the file from the >>>> local to remote. Perhaps try executing a raw command to test it out? >>>> Something along the lines of: >>>> >>>> - name: copy to local from remote >>>> raw: Copy-Item -Path {{remoteFileLocation}} -Destination >>>> {{localFileLocation}} -Force >>>> >>>> Can't test this currently, but can do in the morning. >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 8:16:34 PM UTC-8, Slim Slam wrote: >>>>> >>>>> In Ansible 2.0, the win_copy module will move a local file to a remote >>>>> windows machine. >>>>> >>>>> Is there an Ansible way to fetch a remote file on a windows server and >>>>> move it to a local machine? >>>>> >>>>> J >>>>> >>>> -- 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/569b2b11-6986-4bf5-b9a2-b14563074ab4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
