[ansible-devel] Re: error when running a windows command using 'raw'

2019-08-16 Thread Chris Jackson
Jordan, Worked like a dream! I changed the module to win_command. Many thanks for your help! Regards Chris On Friday, August 16, 2019 at 12:03:45 PM UTC+1, Jordan Borean wrote: > > That’s my bad, when you quote the string and want to execute it you need > to add the call operator like: > >

[ansible-devel] Re: error when running a windows command using 'raw'

2019-08-16 Thread Jordan Borean
That’s my bad, when you quote the string and want to execute it you need to add the call operator like: - raw: ‘&” C:\Program Files\... “‘ The alternative is to use win_command with the setup you have right now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[ansible-devel] Re: error when running a windows command using 'raw'

2019-08-16 Thread Chris Jackson
Sorry, just to add to the previous post, the yaml is now as follows:- - name: Installing the license raw: '"C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB\BIN\db2licm" -a "{{ temp_area }}\{{ db2_lic_file }}"' On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 5:08:28 PM UTC+1, Chris Jackson wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Tearing my

[ansible-devel] Re: error when running a windows command using 'raw'

2019-08-16 Thread Chris Jackson
Thankls for the responses so far. Getting a different error now after applying your suggestion Jordan (so positive) "stderr_lines": [ "At line:1 char:43", "+ \"C:\\Program Files\\IBM\\SQLLIB\\BIN\\db2licm\" -a \"C:\\Users\\ADMINI~1\\AppDa ...", "+

[ansible-devel] Re: error when running a windows command using 'raw'

2019-08-15 Thread Jordan Borean
Actually if your example is literal and -a is on a newline then that's probably your issue, it sounds like you wanted '>' not '|' to folder each newline in your string but I still recommend the way above I posted. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[ansible-devel] Re: error when running a windows command using 'raw'

2019-08-15 Thread Jordan Borean
Not sure why it is complaining here, maybe an invisble control character. Anyway you are best off doing the following; - name: Installing the license raw: '"C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB\BIN\db2licm" -a "{{ temp_area }}\{{ db2_lic_file }}"' Raw in Windows is not truly raw as it is run in a