Thanks Dick! I've started to get that impression after searching for quite some time.
Currently using a shell command like this to get only specific files down: wget -r -nd --no-parent -A '*pattern*' http://site.com/path/to/file/ Hence why I was thinking it might be possible in Ansible. Cheers, TK On Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 7:15:10 PM UTC-4, Dick Visser wrote: > > It's fundamentally impossible to do what you want, unless the remote > server offers some sort of file system equivalent, like a directory > index. > > Dick > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 19:24, Tom K. <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Having some difficulty finding what is the Ansible code to do this: > > > > Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote http / > https host to a target server local path. > > > > > > So would like to wget http://remote.com/rpm/app*.rpm to a set of target > servers. get_url doesn't appear to support patterns as per Ansible > Documentation. On the other hand, with_fileglob supports regular > expressions and patterns but doesn't work with HTTP. > > > > > > Looking for suggestions. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > TK > > > > -- > > 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] <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/42eee6fe-2134-4fd0-aa29-fc0571e9a249%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > > -- > Dick Visser > Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager > GÉANT > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f57ddea1-b412-472f-977c-b933f97ef43f%40googlegroups.com.
