Thank you. That’s what I needed. 

Mike

> On Mar 2, 2020, at 19:07, Vladimir Botka <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:41:28 -0600
> Mike Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I will write a program that looks for network devices on its local network
>> and created a report of the findings. That’s easy. Using Ansible to push
>> out the program and execute the program is easy. But how do I pull the
>> report back to a unique name? For example the report is created
>> as /tmp/report. I want to pull that file back to a file
>> named /tmp/report-network.txt. What module do I use to pullback the file?
>> The fetch module?
> 
> "fetch" module is a good choice to pull the report back to a unique name. The
> unique name will be automatically created by the module. Quoting:
> 
>  "...default behavior of appending hostname/path/to/file to the
>  destination ... retrieving files that are uniquely named per host."
> 
> This behaviour can be switched off by "flat: true".
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/fetch_module.html#parameters
> 
> HTH,
> 
>    -vlado

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