Jordan, You're a genius, it worked like a charm. Thanks! On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Jordan Borean <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/ansible-project/5F3UCDR3j_Y/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/8d008be2-5b25-4f64-87eb-5ba5c1508e03%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Thank you, Larry Pescatore Lab Engineer, ERG Inc. @ Google -- 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/CADxK1ktgeUYuzTi%3Ddus5h4MpxLggmaE4khEdgofZPmd206DMEQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
