fetch module fails checksum when remote user's shell is set to /bin/tcsh

[breatheoften]

I created an issue reporting what appears to me to be a bug in the fetch module -- the fetch module succeeds in grabbing the remote file and then always fails its checksum test if the remote user's login shell is set to /bin/tcsh -- but works when the remote user's login shell is set to /bin/bash.

I filed an issue along with simplified steps to reproduce:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1297#event-300717455

The issue was closed (by a bot?) -- with a note pointing me at this list.

Is this a user issue or a bug?  I'm not seeing any documentation that implies that the remote_user's login shell needs to be bash ...  Is that a requirement of ansible?  This requirement is not described in the faq or any documentation that I find ...  I can't think of anything about my bug report that implies this is a user support issue.

The fetch module behavior is broken when the remote user's login shell is set to /bin/tcsh.  That seems an awful lot like a bug to me ...

I've been using ansible for awhile now -- usually the remote_user's login shell has always been bash -- but in some cases, some of these hosts have had their login shells changed and I can't necessarily immediately change them back to bash.  

Thanks,

Ben

[Brian Coca]

hi, im the bot that closed the issue, in the response you might have
missed the answer:

set ansible_shell_type=csh group/host var for this host and
checksumming should work again. Different shell families need
different quoting.

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[Ben Cohen]

Ah ok, yeah I didn't see the above answer in the response on the issue ...  I'm surprised this isn't a faq.

Thanks,

Ben

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