win_comand / win_shell : The system cannot find the file specified

[norricorp]

Hi,

I am currently just trying stuff on the command line, I will do the playbook later.

Ansible 2.2.1.0 on centos7.

Trying to run a command on a windows 10 PC.

ansible mesh -u user -k -m win_ping
SSH password:
mesh | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

So that works. But if I run

ansible mesh -u user -k -m win_command -a 'ng build chdir=C:\Temp\angularjs_example\angular2\heroes_new'
SSH password:
mesh | FAILED | rc=2 >>
The system cannot find the file specified

or

ansible mesh -u user -k -m win_shell -a "ng build chdir=C:\Temp\angularjs_example\angular2\heroes_new"
SSH password:
mesh | FAILED | rc=267 >>
The directory name is invalid

Now the folder does exist. I have tried with escaping backslashes, in double quotes, with forward quotes. All with the same result.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Regards

[J Hawkesworth]

Try double backslashes in the windows style path names - these are usually needed when double quoting module parameters.

Hope this helps,

Jon

[norricorp]

Hi Jon,

ansible mesh -u user -k -m win_shell -a "ng build chdir=C:\\Temp\\angularjs_example\\angular2\\heroes_new"
SSH password:
mesh | FAILED | rc=267 >>
The directory name is invalid

But strangely, this does work

 ansible mesh -u user-k -m win_shell -a "dir chdir=C:\\Temp"
SSH password:
mesh | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>

    Directory: C:\Temp

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name                         
----                -------------         ------ ----                                     
d-----       16/02/2017     10:34                angularjs_example

So then tried

ansible mesh -u user -k -m win_shell -a "ng build chdir=C:\\Temp\\\\angularjs_example\\\\angular2\\\\heroes_new"
SSH password:

mesh | FAILED | rc=1 >>
Hash: 7fac7ff8ebe8aa19c58e
Time: 14561ms
chunk    {0} main.bundle.js, main.bundle.map (main) 50 kB {2} [initial] [rendered]
chunk    {1} styles.bundle.js, styles.bundle.map (styles) 11.7 kB {3} [initial] [rendered]
chunk    {2} vendor.bundle.js, vendor.bundle.map (vendor) 2.37 MB [initial] [rendered]
chunk    {3} inline.bundle.js, inline.bundle.map (inline) 0 bytes [entry] [rendered]

ERROR in compiler_1.StaticSymbolCache is not a constructor

And that does work. The error is a current problem in angular 2 ....

Many thanks for your help.