copy - Copies files to remote locations

• Synopsis
• Options
• Examples
• Return Values
• Notes
  • Status
  • Maintenance Info

Synopsis

• The copy module copies a file from the local or remote machine to a location on the remote machine. Use the fetch module to copy files from remote locations to the local box. If you need variable interpolation in copied files, use the template module.
• For Windows targets, use the win_copy module instead.

Options

Examples

# Example from Ansible Playbooks
- copy:
    src: /srv/myfiles/foo.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    owner: foo
    group: foo
    mode: 0644

# The same example as above, but using a symbolic mode equivalent to 0644
- copy:
    src: /srv/myfiles/foo.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    owner: foo
    group: foo
    mode: u=rw,g=r,o=r

# Another symbolic mode example, adding some permissions and removing others
- copy:
    src: /srv/myfiles/foo.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf
    owner: foo
    group: foo
    mode: u+rw,g-wx,o-rwx

# Copy a new "ntp.conf file into place, backing up the original if it differs from the copied version
- copy:
    src: /mine/ntp.conf
    dest: /etc/ntp.conf
    owner: root
    group: root
    mode: 0644
    backup: yes

# Copy a new "sudoers" file into place, after passing validation with visudo
- copy:
    src: /mine/sudoers
    dest: /etc/sudoers
    validate: /usr/sbin/visudo -cf %s

# Copy a "sudoers" file on the remote machine for editing
- copy:
    src: /etc/sudoers
    dest: /etc/sudoers.edit
    remote_src: yes
    validate: /usr/sbin/visudo -cf %s

# Create a CSV file from your complete inventory using an inline template
- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - copy:
      content: |
        HOSTNAME;IPADDRESS;FQDN;OSNAME;OSVERSION;PROCESSOR;ARCHITECTURE;MEMORY;
        {% for host in hostvars %}
        {%   set vars = hostvars[host|string] %}
        {{ vars.ansible_hostname }};{{ vars.remote_host }};{{ vars.ansible_fqdn }};{{ vars.ansible_distribution }};{{ vars.ansible_distribution_version }};{{ vars.ansible_processor[1] }};{{ vars.ansible_architecture }};{{ (vars.ansible_memtotal_mb/1024)|round|int }};  # NOQA
        {% endfor %}
      dest: /some/path/systems.csv
      backup: yes
    run_once: yes
    delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance Info

For more information about Red Hat’s this support of this module, please refer to this knowledge base article<https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-top-support-policies>

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