copy multiple files

[dan...@gmail.com]

Is there a way to copy multiple files with a single command? The copy module doesn't seem to handle "*.conf" for example. I often want to deploy an entire folder containing multiple files and it would be tedious to have to specify each file individually. Is there a way to do this? (I know there is the git module, but in many cases that would be over-kill.)

Dan

[Yves Dorfsman]

I have use rsync with a local_action for something similar, but yes a "copy
directory" or even an rsync module would be nice.


tasks:

- name: install prereqs for ansible
action: apt pkg=$item
with_items:
- python-yaml
- python-paramiko
- python-jinja2

- name: create /export directory
action: command mkdir -p /export/ansible creates=/export/ansible

- name: rsync (push) ansible
local_action: command rsync --delete -uaSHAXEx /export/ansible/ansible
$inventory_hostname:/export/ansible


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[Michael DeHaan]

There's an outstanding pull request for making copy recursive if the
source is a directory.

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[Brian Coca]

You can use with_fileglob to have copy module iterate over the *.conf

Brian Coca

[James Nguyễn]

Just to be clear, that pull request will follow folders as well if it's in the source directory?