I don't think win_shell is necessary, you are truly trying to run an executable and don't want to confuse issues that may be related to how the shell handles things and how a command handles it. In your case you will need to enclose the full command with a single quote ', you tried this but I think forgot to close the string with a ' hence Ansible telling you that there was inbalanced quotes. I just tried the following on a brand new server and it was successful in install Cygwin.
- hosts: '2012R2' gather_facts: no tasks: - name: download Cygwin installer win_get_url: url: https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe dest: C:\temp\setup-x86_64.exe - name: install Cygwin win_command: 'C:\temp\setup-x86_64.exe --root C:\cygwin64 --quiet-mode --site http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com --packages "openssh,rsync,zip,vim,wget,nano"' As you can see, the whole string for win_command is enclosed with ' and it has allowed me to continue to use " and \ without escaping anything. Here you can see Cygwin is installed and up and running <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k2_L64sggLI/WgS3VyqlLKI/AAAAAAAAARs/yxWDMQ_-gcoFq3WzyvLGOm-Cjbt7LGTtgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-10%2Bat%2B6.13.55%2Bam.png> Thanks Jordan -- 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/8d008be2-5b25-4f64-87eb-5ba5c1508e03%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
