[ansible-project] Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote https host to target server local path.

Having some difficulty finding what is the Ansible code to do this: Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote http / https host to a target server local path. So would like to wget http://remote.com/rpm/app*.rpm to a set of target servers. get_url doesn't appear to supp

Re: [ansible-project] Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote https host to target server local path.

It's fundamentally impossible to do what you want, unless the remote server offers some sort of file system equivalent, like a directory index. Dick On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 19:24, Tom K. wrote: > > Having some difficulty finding what is the Ansible code to do this: > > Downloading files with a sp

Re: [ansible-project] Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote https host to target server local path.

Thanks Dick! I've started to get that impression after searching for quite some time. Currently using a shell command like this to get only specific files down: wget -r -nd --no-parent -A '*pattern*' http://site.com/path/to/file/ Hence why I was thinking it might be possible in Ansible.

Re: [ansible-project] Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote https host to target server local path.

The recursive (-r) option of wget only downloads files that are 'visible'. This works fine for stuff like a web page with indexed directory listings etc. But anything that is not listed won't be magically retrieved. If a site does not contain any links to content that is actually there, wget will n

Re: [ansible-project] Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote https host to target server local path.

Let's assume a real site: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/ wget -r -nd --no-parent -A '*glib*' http: //mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/ Grabs all the packages that have glib in the name. Now you're also r

Re: [ansible-project] Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote https host to target server local path.

well may you will need to read the output of curl and then grep over some html tags... I do some like this : curl grep -o -E 'href="([^"*]+)"' | cut -d '"' -f 2 | sort -n | sed -e 's/\///' | tail -1 this wil give you el name of the last file in the list of href="([^"*]+ in my case there are li

Re: [ansible-project] Downloading files with a specific regular expression from remote https host to target server local path.

if those files are tailor made for you then I would work with the team providing them to find an alternative way of doing this. What if they created a json file containing all the file information and key that with the host info, after the files are generated? On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 20:26, To