And thank you to everyone else that contributed! On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Larry Pescatore <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/to >> pic/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/ms >> gid/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 > -- 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/CADxK1ktdt51hutAPNnLWULE%2BpX2E_wsDt_%3D9bzNMJ1P%3DTaX1rQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
