Hi Kai,
it is working for me now, I have removed name: dest .
Thank you so much for advise, have a nice day.
Thank you.
Abdul
On Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 1:32:35 PM UTC+5:30, abdul sattar Shaikh
wrote:
>
> Hi Kai,
>
> Yes, I can see the directory starting with {u'dest': u' and in this
> directory i could see xyz.txt file, exact patch is as : {u'dest':
> u'/u01/app/xyz.txt
>
> Since I wish to put this file at /u01/app ( destination folder specified
> in variables.yml) and my main playbook which is fetchfile.yml is not doing
> it, please suggest where I am doing wrong in here.
>
> Thank you.
> Abdul
>
> On Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 1:28:26 AM UTC+5:30, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>>
>> On 04. nov. 2017 20:40, abdul sattar Shaikh wrote:
>> > I am having below playbooks, I intent to include variables and I have
>> got
>> > below message as "OK" and "changed" but file not copied over.
>> >
>> > please review and advise.
>> >
>> > Main playbook:
>> > cat fetchfile.yml
>> > ---
>> > - hosts: all
>> > tasks:
>> > - name: Include vars of vars.yml into the 'dest' variable.
>> > include_vars:
>> > file: vars.yml
>> > name: dest
>> > - fetch:
>> > src: /tmp/xyz.txt
>> > dest: "{{ dest }}/"
>> > flat: yes
>> >
>> > ------------ variable playbook:
>> > cat variable.yml
>> > dest: /u01/app
>> >
>>
>> <snip />
>>
>> >
>> > ------------------ it shows above as changed but when I am checking
>> xyz.txt
>> > file at "dest" location, I could not see it, please advise.
>>
>> You are looking at the wrong destination.
>> Look in the directory you run ansible-playbook, you will find a directory
>> starting with {
>> If you run ansible-playbook with -vvv you'll see what I mean.
>>
>> The name on the include_vars means, put the content in the file under the
>> variable dest, so you dest is actually:
>> dest:
>> dest: /u01/app
>>
>> It you add
>> - debug: var=dest
>> after include_vars you will also see that.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kai Stian Olstad
>>
>
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