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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. 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.
