By the way, this is useful if you are looking for ways to convert linux 
'toolbox' commands to powershell equivalents:

https://www.gitbook.com/book/devopscollective/a-unix-person-s-guide-to-powershell/details

Jon

On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 8:22:13 AM UTC+1, J Hawkesworth wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Windows doesn't have the same kind of shells as linux, so right now, your 
> best choise is to write powershell and execute it from ansible using the 
> raw or script modules.  Powershell is a little different from bash or ksh.  
> The main big difference is that you pipe objects not text.  
>
> Here's a intro for someone coming from a linux background 
> https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/powershell-101-from-a-linux-guy/
>
> I like to use ad-hoc ansible to work out commands.
>
> ansible win10 -m raw -a "gci c:\\"
>
> There are lot of aliases for command names that roughly approximate to 
> linux equivalents, but because you are dealing with objects, the (default) 
> output formats are very different from what you are used to.  There's a 
> bunch of built in formatting commands which can help and you can pick out 
> just the attributes from objects that you are interested in.
>
> ansible 10t -m raw -a "gci c:\\|format-list"
>
> ansible win10 -m raw -a "gci c:\\|convertto-csv"
>
> ansible 10t -m raw -a "gci c:\\|select Name, CreationTime |convertto-json"
>
> Hope this gives you an idea of what is possible.
>
> Jon
>
> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 8:53:43 AM UTC+1, fanvalt wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I did write an Ansible playbook to run on Linux, and now I would like to 
>> port it to run on Windows.
>>
>> I would like to list the subdirectories to save it but because I don't 
>> know the full name, on Linux did write this play:
>> - name: Lister l installation existante
>>   shell: chdir=/{{ Directoryname }} ls -d SHR_4YOU-{{product}}-*
>>   register: shr4you_inst
>>   ignore_errors: True
>>   when: repertoire.stat.isdir is defined and repertoire.stat.isdir
>>
>> How can I port this line on Windows ?   shell: chdir=/{{ Directoryname }} 
>> ls -d SHR_4YOU-{{product}}-*
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Regards,
>>
>

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