# Copyright: Ansible Project # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) # # There is no actual shell module source, when you use 'shell' in ansible, # it runs the 'command' module with special arguments and it behaves differently. # See the command source and the comment "#USE_SHELL". from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function __metaclass__ = type ANSIBLE_METADATA = {'metadata_version': '1.1', 'status': ['stableinterface'], 'supported_by': 'core'} DOCUMENTATION = ''' --- module: shell short_description: Execute commands in nodes. description: - The C(shell) module takes the command name followed by a list of space-delimited arguments. It is almost exactly like the M(command) module but runs the command through a shell (C(/bin/sh)) on the remote node. - For Windows targets, use the M(win_shell) module instead. version_added: "0.2" options: free_form: description: - The shell module takes a free form command to run, as a string. There's not an actual option named "free form". See the examples! required: true default: null creates: description: - a filename, when it already exists, this step will B(not) be run. required: no default: null removes: description: - a filename, when it does not exist, this step will B(not) be run. version_added: "0.8" required: no default: null chdir: description: - cd into this directory before running the command required: false default: null version_added: "0.6" executable: description: - change the shell used to execute the command. Should be an absolute path to the executable. required: false default: null version_added: "0.9" warn: description: - if command warnings are on in ansible.cfg, do not warn about this particular line if set to no/false. required: false default: True version_added: "1.8" stdin: version_added: "2.4" description: - Set the stdin of the command directly to the specified value. required: false default: null notes: - If you want to execute a command securely and predictably, it may be better to use the M(command) module instead. Best practices when writing playbooks will follow the trend of using M(command) unless the C(shell) module is explicitly required. When running ad-hoc commands, use your best judgement. - To sanitize any variables passed to the shell module, you should use "{{ var | quote }}" instead of just "{{ var }}" to make sure they don't include evil things like semicolons. - For Windows targets, use the M(win_shell) module instead. - Rather than using here documents to create multi-line scripts inside playbooks, use the M(script) module instead. requirements: [ ] author: - Ansible Core Team - Michael DeHaan ''' EXAMPLES = ''' - name: Execute the command in remote shell; stdout goes to the specified file on the remote. shell: somescript.sh >> somelog.txt - name: Change the working directory to somedir/ before executing the command. shell: somescript.sh >> somelog.txt args: chdir: somedir/ # You can also use the 'args' form to provide the options. - name: This command will change the working directory to somedir/ and will only run when somedir/somelog.txt doesn't exist. shell: somescript.sh >> somelog.txt args: chdir: somedir/ creates: somelog.txt - name: Run a command that uses non-posix shell-isms (in this example /bin/sh doesn't handle redirection and wildcards together but bash does) shell: cat < /tmp/*txt args: executable: /bin/bash - name: Run a command using a templated variable (always use quote filter to avoid injection) shell: cat {{ myfile|quote }} # You can use shell to run other executables to perform actions inline - name: Run expect to wait for a successful PXE boot via out-of-band CIMC shell: | set timeout 300 spawn ssh admin@{{ cimc_host }} expect "password:" send "{{ cimc_password }}\\n" expect "\\n{{ cimc_name }}" send "connect host\\n" expect "pxeboot.n12" send "\\n" exit 0 args: executable: /usr/bin/expect delegate_to: localhost ''' RETURN = ''' msg: description: changed returned: always type: boolean sample: True start: description: The command execution start time returned: always type: string sample: '2016-02-25 09:18:26.429568' end: description: The command execution end time returned: always type: string sample: '2016-02-25 09:18:26.755339' delta: description: The command execution delta time returned: always type: string sample: '0:00:00.325771' stdout: description: The command standard output returned: always type: string sample: 'Clustering node rabbit@slave1 with rabbit@master ...' stderr: description: The command standard error returned: always type: string sample: 'ls: cannot access foo: No such file or directory' cmd: description: The command executed by the task returned: always type: string sample: 'rabbitmqctl join_cluster rabbit@master' rc: description: The command return code (0 means success) returned: always type: int sample: 0 stdout_lines: description: The command standard output split in lines returned: always type: list sample: [u'Clustering node rabbit@slave1 with rabbit@master ...'] '''