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[Naoko Reeves]

I am trying to rename folder that is unpacked. So I can only get file name accurately with grep (or some sort of regex expression)

via ansible, the following command fails with the error message: stderr: mv: cannot stat `/var/www/`ls /var/www/ | grep client`': No such file or directory

command mv "/var/www/`ls /var/www/ | grep client`" "/var/www/gd_new"

however, exact command works just fine when executed on server

I try to use mv "var/www/client*" "/var/www/gd_new", with xargs with pipe... all end up with similar error...

any guidance would be appreciated. 

[Brian Coca]

can you show the play/tasks involved?

[Naoko Reeves]

yes this is the task. only "mv" fails...

- name: example_client | download archived dist, unpack and cleanup

  command: "{{item}}"

  with_items:

    - curl -H "Authorization:token {{ git_token }}" -L -o /var/www/example.zip "https://api.github.com/repos/user/example_client/zipball/gh-pages"

    - unzip /var/www/example.zip -d /var/www

    - mv "/var/www/`ls /var/www/ | grep client`" "/var/www/example_new"

  tags: 

    - deploy

[Dag Wieers]

Substitute "command" by "shell". The shell module allows to do piping,
backticks, globs, etc.. The command module does not do any of those things
and can only be used for a single static command line.

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[Michael DeHaan]

Yes, you need to use the shell module.  However, much of this can be refactored.

curl should probably use the "get_url" module, etc.

There's also the "unarchive" module, so you could do a local play to download the contents to the Ansible control machine and follow that up with unarchive to avoid the download happening on every host.

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[Naoko Reeves]

Dag, Michael,

Thank you, that solved the issue.