From 79cd04e6898116ddec36e9f918242984d3995d03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Martin <jmartin@basho.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 13:33:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Initial Commit.
---
network/fetch | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/network/fetch b/network/fetch
index 5a1f20fa6c7..5d2f55a6491 100644
--- a/network/fetch
+++ b/network/fetch
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ short_description: Fetches a file from remote nodes
description:
- This module works like M(copy), but in reverse. It is used for fetching
files from remote machines and storing them locally in a file tree,
- organized by hostname. Note that this module is written to transfer
+ organized by hostname. Note that this module is written to transfer
log files that might not be present, so a missing remote file won't
be an error unless fail_on_missing is set to 'yes'.
version_added: "0.2"
@@ -34,9 +34,22 @@ options:
required: false
choices: [ "yes", "no" ]
default: "no"
+ flat:
+ version_added: "1.2"
+ description:
+ Allows you to override the default behavior of prepending hostname/path/to/file to
+ the destination. If dest ends with '/', it will use the basename of the source
+ file, similar to the copy module. Obvioiusly this is only handy if the filenames
+ are unqiue.
examples:
- code: "fetch: src=/var/log/messages dest=/home/logtree"
description: "Example from Ansible Playbooks"
+ - code: "fetch: src=/tmp/somefile dest="/tmp/beefcake-{{ ansible_hostname }}" flat=yes"
+ description: "Copies a file from remote machine and stores it at the absolute path /tmp/beefcake-{{ ansible_hostname }}"
+ - code: "fetch: src=/tmp/uniquefile dest="/tmp/special/" flat=yes"
+ description: "Copies a file from remote machine and stores it at the absolute path /tmp/special"
+ - code: "fetch: src=/tmp/uniquefile dest="special/" flat=yes"
+ description: "Copies a file from remote machine and stores it in special/uniquefile relative to the playbook"
requirements: []
author: Michael DeHaan
'''