'fetch' module not fetching to where I want

[John Oliver]

I'm using a variable to specify a relative path to where I want my output written.  It looks like ansible can figure out what I'm telling it, but then cheerily ignores me and writes to /tmp :-)

  vars:

    local_dest: "~/STIG\ Results/"

  - name: Retrieve result

    fetch: src=/tmp/{{ dest_file }}

           dest="{{ local_dest }}"

           flat=yes

           validate_checksum=no

TASK: [debug msg="{{ local_dest }}"] ****************************************** 

<flamingo> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: joliver

ok: [flamingo] => {

    "msg": "~/STIG Results/"

}

TASK: [Retrieve result] ******************************************************* 

<flamingo> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: joliver

<flamingo> EXEC ssh -C -tt -v -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/Users/joliver/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 flamingo /bin/sh -c 'rc=flag; [ -r /tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl ] || rc=2; [ -f /tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl ] || rc=1; [ -d /tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl ] && rc=3; python -V 2>/dev/null || rc=4; [ x"$rc" != "xflag" ] && echo "${rc} "/tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl && exit 0; (python -c '"'"'import hashlib; BLOCKSIZE = 65536; hasher = hashlib.sha1(); afile = open("'"'"'/tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl'"'"'", "rb") buf = afile.read(BLOCKSIZE) while len(buf) > 0: hasher.update(buf) buf = afile.read(BLOCKSIZE) afile.close() print(hasher.hexdigest())'"'"' 2>/dev/null) || (python -c '"'"'import sha; BLOCKSIZE = 65536; hasher = sha.sha(); afile = open("'"'"'/tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl'"'"'", "rb") buf = afile.read(BLOCKSIZE) while len(buf) > 0: hasher.update(buf) buf = afile.read(BLOCKSIZE) afile.close() print(hasher.hexdigest())'"'"' 2>/dev/null) || (echo '"'"'0 '"'"'/tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl)'

<flamingo> FETCH /tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl TO /Users/joliver/STIG Results/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl

changed: [flamingo] => {"changed": true, "checksum": null, "dest": "/Users/joliver/STIG Results/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl", "md5sum": null, "remote_checksum": "6890cd809b2a8d98bed77236499a304e627752c8", "remote_md5sum": null}

joliver@flamingo U_JRE7_UNIX_V1R4 $ ls -l ~/STIG\ Results/U_F*

ls: /Users/joliver/STIG Results/U_F*: No such file or directory

joliver@flamingo U_JRE7_UNIX_V1R4 $ ls -l /tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl 

-rw-r--r--  1 joliver  wheel  50913 May 11 11:49 /tmp/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl

[Brian Coca]

weird as it clearly shows this in the return:

"dest": "/Users/joliver/STIG Results/U_FLAMINGO_JRE7_20150511.ckl

[John Oliver]

Yup!  Believe me, before I posted, I was following that thread.  For a little while I hadn't enquoted the variable, and that caused a problem.  "STIG Results" is definitely a real directory that's actually in my home directory, and not a symlink or anything like that.  But I can reproduce this over and over again.

I'll make a small test playbook and play around with simpler paths and file names and see if anything turns up.

[Brian Coca]

I suspect this will be a quoting issue in the end.



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Brian Coca