And thank you to everyone else that contributed! On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Larry Pescatore <lpescat...@google.com> wrote:
> Jordan, > You're a genius, it worked like a charm. > Thanks! > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Jordan Borean <jborea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I don't think win_shell is necessary, you are truly trying to run an >> executable and don't want to confuse issues that may be related to how the >> shell handles things and how a command handles it. In your case you will >> need to enclose the full command with a single quote ', you tried this but >> I think forgot to close the string with a ' hence Ansible telling you that >> there was inbalanced quotes. I just tried the following on a brand new >> server and it was successful in install Cygwin. >> >> - hosts: '2012R2' >> gather_facts: no >> tasks: >> - name: download Cygwin installer >> win_get_url: >> url: https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe >> dest: C:\temp\setup-x86_64.exe >> >> - name: install Cygwin >> win_command: 'C:\temp\setup-x86_64.exe --root C:\cygwin64 --quiet-mode >> --site http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com --packages >> "openssh,rsync,zip,vim,wget,nano"' >> >> >> As you can see, the whole string for win_command is enclosed with ' and >> it has allowed me to continue to use " and \ without escaping anything. >> Here you can see Cygwin is installed and up and running >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k2_L64sggLI/WgS3VyqlLKI/AAAAAAAAARs/yxWDMQ_-gcoFq3WzyvLGOm-Cjbt7LGTtgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-11-10%2Bat%2B6.13.55%2Bam.png> >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> Jordan >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >> pic/ansible-project/5F3UCDR3j_Y/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/ansible-project/8d008be2-5b25-4f64-87eb-5ba5c1508e03% >> 40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/8d008be2-5b25-4f64-87eb-5ba5c1508e03%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Thank you, > Larry Pescatore > Lab Engineer, ERG Inc. @ Google > -- Thank you, Larry Pescatore Lab Engineer, ERG Inc. @ Google -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CADxK1ktdt51hutAPNnLWULE%2BpX2E_wsDt_%3D9bzNMJ1P%3DTaX1rQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
