How to use template inside of shell creates conditional check?

[hce h]

Hi,

The following examples gave me a syntax error, appreciate clues to use template inside creates statement.

shell: "cp /tmp/{{ my_server }}.crt /etc/{{ my_server }}.crt"
args:
  creates: /etc/{{ my_server }}.crt

Thank you.

Kind regards,

- j

[Matt Martz]

It might help to actually state what the "syntax error" is.

Also what version of ansible are you using?

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[hce h]

Thanks Matt, please see following comments:

On Monday, November 3, 2014 12:44:38 PM UTC+11, Matt Martz wrote:

It might help to actually state what the "syntax error" is.

ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script copyCert.yml

creates: /etc/{{ my_server }}.crt
                                          ^

Also what version of ansible are you using?

 ansible-1.7-1.el6.noarch

On Sunday, November 2, 2014, hce h <jupit...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

The following examples gave me a syntax error, appreciate clues to use template inside creates statement.

shell: "cp /tmp/{{ my_server }}.crt /etc/{{ my_server }}.crt"
args:
  creates: /etc/{{ my_server }}.crt

Thank you.

Kind regards,

- j

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[Michael DeHaan]

If you share the whole exception you should find it's giving you helper text telling you what to do with it.

Let us know if not.

meanwhile, it seems you are doing a local copy, which is a little curious compared to doing a remote copy (copy module).

All being said, this is the simplest possible representation:

shell: cp /tmp/{{my_server}}.crt /etc/{{my_server}}.crt creates=/etc/{{my_server}}.crt

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[hce h]

Thanks Michael, that does the trick.

Much appreciate it.