If you share the whole exception you should find it's giving you helper
text telling you what to do with it.
Let us know if not.
meanwhile, it seems you are doing a local copy, which is a little curious
compared to doing a remote copy (copy module).
All being said, this is the simplest possible representation:
shell: cp /tmp/{{my_server}}.crt /etc/{{my_server}}.crt
creates=/etc/{{my_server}}.crt
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:59 PM, hce h <jupiter....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Matt, please see following comments:
>
> On Monday, November 3, 2014 12:44:38 PM UTC+11, Matt Martz wrote:
>>
>> It might help to actually state what the "syntax error" is.
>
>
> ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script copyCert.yml
>
> creates: /etc/{{ my_server }}.crt
> ^
>
>>
>> Also what version of ansible are you using?
>>
>> ansible-1.7-1.el6.noarch
>
> On Sunday, November 2, 2014, hce h <jupit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The following examples gave me a syntax error, appreciate clues to use
>>> template inside creates statement.
>>>
>>> shell: "cp /tmp/{{ my_server }}.crt /etc/{{ my_server }}.crt"
>>> args:
>>> creates: /etc/{{ my_server }}.crt
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> - j
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