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 > -- 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/e3ce6e8b-fa32-4a5b-9a6d-c4cd57863acf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
