Ansible: How to execute multiple commands with `ansible -a`

Question

This works:

  ansible host -a "echo hello"                # hello

But this returned a weird answer

  ansible host -a "echo hello && echo world"      # hello && echo world

Does ansible escape && and ; with ansible -a?

How can I excute it?

Konstantin Suvorov · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-30 15:41:14Z

5

By default ansible CLI uses command module, which does not feed its arguments trough shell.

You want to use shell module instead:

ansible host -m shell -a 'echo hello && echo world'

answered Mar 30, 2018 at 15:41

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Yasunori Kuji · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-29 08:23:00Z

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I remembered that ansible uses just ssh.

# not work
ansible host -a "echo hello && echo world"
# works
ansible host -a "bash -c 'echo hello && echo world'"

The command is excuted just through the ssh command.

answered Mar 29, 2018 at 8:23

Yasunori Kuji

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