ansible.windows.win_shell – Execute shell commands on target hosts

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• See Also
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• The ansible.windows.win_shell module takes the command name followed by a list of space-delimited arguments. It is similar to the ansible.windows.win_command module, but runs the command via a shell (defaults to PowerShell) on the target host.
• For non-Windows targets, use the ansible.builtin.shell module instead.

Parameters

Notes

See Also

Examples

- name: Execute a comand in the remote shell, stdout goes to the specified file on the remote
  ansible.windows.win_shell: C:\somescript.ps1 >> C:\somelog.txt

- name: Change the working directory to somedir/ before executing the command
  ansible.windows.win_shell: C:\somescript.ps1 >> C:\somelog.txt
  args:
    chdir: C:\somedir

- name: Run a command with an idempotent check on what it creates, will only run when somedir/somelog.txt does not exist
  ansible.windows.win_shell: C:\somescript.ps1 >> C:\somelog.txt
  args:
    chdir: C:\somedir
    creates: C:\somelog.txt

- name: Run a command under a non-Powershell interpreter (cmd in this case)
  ansible.windows.win_shell: echo %HOMEDIR%
  args:
    executable: cmd
  register: homedir_out

- name: Run multi-lined shell commands
  ansible.windows.win_shell: |
    $value = Test-Path -Path C:\temp
    if ($value) {
        Remove-Item -Path C:\temp -Force
    }
    New-Item -Path C:\temp -ItemType Directory

- name: Retrieve the input based on stdin
  ansible.windows.win_shell: '$string = [Console]::In.ReadToEnd(); Write-Output $string.Trim()'
  args:
    stdin: Input message

Return Values

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

Authors

• Matt Davis (@nitzmahone)