Thank you. Sad thing is I've done this before and (now) remember reading 
that part of the docs.

On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 12:36:49 PM UTC-5, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18.30.09 CET ZillaYT wrote: 
> > Ansible v2.4.0.0 
> > 
> > I want to copy the contents of a local directory to my target host, but 
> the 
> > recursive option copies the directory itself. That is 
> > 
> > - name: Copy local files target 
> >    copy: 
> >      src: /tmp/local_dir 
> >      dest: /some_path/remote_dir 
> >      recurse: yes 
> > 
> > /tmp/local_dir has 
> > - dir1/some_dirs_and_files 
> > - dir2/some_dirs_and_files 
> > 
> > 
> > The result has this on the target host 
> > 
> > /some_path/remote_dir/local_dir/dir1 
> > /some_path/remote_dir/local_dir/dir2 
> > 
> > ...but I want this 
> > /some_path/remote_dir/dir1 
> > /some_path/remote_dir/dir2 
> > 
> > Is this achievable? 
>
> The docs have the answer 
>
> "src:  -  If path is a directory, it is copied recursively. In this case, 
> if path ends with "/", only inside contents of that directory are copied to 
> destination. Otherwise, if it does not end with "/", the directory itself 
> with all contents is copied." 
>
>
> -- 
> Kai Stian Olstad 
>

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