How to copy a file from windows to linux

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bulent senguler

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Jun 25, 2021, 3:41:26 PM6/25/21
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Hi all,
I want to copy a file from windows to linux but I cannot do that. I trıed win_copy module and remote_src=yes and job was success but the file did not exist on target machine.  Where I am wrong. Thanks for helps.

Wei-Yen Tan

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Jun 25, 2021, 3:42:56 PM6/25/21
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Slurp to ansible controller then copy to linux 
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Hi all,
I want to copy a file from windows to linux but I cannot do that. I trıed win_copy module and remote_src=yes and job was success but the file did not exist on target machine.  Where I am wrong. Thanks for helps.

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bulent senguler

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Jun 25, 2021, 4:25:00 PM6/25/21
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Actually, as a same result.

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Wei-Yen Tan

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Jun 25, 2021, 4:28:52 PM6/25/21
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What do yoy mean. Is it doing the same thing? Can you please share play book and task?
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bulent senguler

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Jun 25, 2021, 4:57:56 PM6/25/21
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- name: copy file from windows to tower
  copy_win:
    src : c:\tmp\b.txt
     dest: /tmp
  remote_src: yes


output :

{
    "src": "c:\\test\\b.txt",
    "_ansible_no_log": false,
    "dest": "/tmp",
    "checksum": "f88f94f974393a32cedc172ea3f7f4affb82f4c2",
    "changed": true,
    "original_basename": "b.txt",
    "operation": "file_copy",
    "size": 7
}

the job finished successfuly, the file does not exist in tmp directory

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Wei-Yen Tan

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Jun 25, 2021, 5:02:36 PM6/25/21
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That's not using the slurp module 
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Wei-Yen Tan

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Jun 25, 2021, 5:05:24 PM6/25/21
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bulent senguler

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Jun 26, 2021, 7:21:23 AM6/26/21
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Thanks for your answer, it opens my sight but I still do not copy content to file on disk. I tried copy module again but it did not work. My playbook and output are below.

---
- name: cp file
  hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: copying a file
    slurp: #win_copy:
      src: c:\test\b.txt #win_copy: #win_copy:
    register: test   #dest: /tmp  #  src: c:\test\a.txt
  - name: dosya ici
    debug:
      msg: "{{ test['content'] | b64decode }}"

  - local_action:
      module: copy
      content: "{{ test['content'] | b64decode }}"
      dest: /tmp/ba.txt


/////////// debug output  /////////////

{
    "msg": "adfasdf", // contains of my file 
    "changed": false,
    "_ansible_verbose_always": true,
    "_ansible_no_log": false
}

//////////////// local_action output //////////////////////////
{
    "changed": true,
    "uid": 998,
    "_ansible_delegated_vars": {
        "ansible_host": "localhost"
    },
    "dest": "/tmp/ba.txt",
    "owner": "awx",
    "diff": [],
    "size": 7,
    "src": "/var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1624704662.69-19-50577674979617/source",
    "group": "awx",
    "_ansible_no_log": false,
    "checksum": "f88f94f974393a32cedc172ea3f7f4affb82f4c2",
    "md5sum": "b4206b74b7563ec684336f054582605b",
    "state": "file",
    "gid": 995,
    "secontext": "system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0",
    "mode": "0644",
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "directory_mode": null,
            "force": true,
            "remote_src": null,
            "dest": "/tmp/ba.txt",
            "selevel": null,
            "_original_basename": "tmpl88RWo",
            "delimiter": null,
            "regexp": null,
            "owner": null,
            "follow": false,
            "validate": null,
            "local_follow": null,
            "src": "/var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1624704662.69-19-50577674979617/source",
            "group": null,
            "unsafe_writes": null,
            "checksum": "f88f94f974393a32cedc172ea3f7f4affb82f4c2",
            "seuser": null,
            "serole": null,
            "content": null,
            "setype": null,
            "mode": null,
            "attributes": null,
            "backup": false
        }
    }
}

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