Thank You Jordan.
I tried first without quotes and was getting an error…I usually try without quotes… anyway, then I tried it as with double quotes and escaping the \’s and it worked… very curious will have to try without quotes at all again and see if perhaps I had some other error and was misinterpreting it as it is my first time using system variables in anger. Bill From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jordan Borean Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 4:08 PM To: Ansible Project <[email protected]> Subject: [ansible-project] Re: inventory_hostname in path to create directory with win_file grief.. Hi You seem to be close, one thing to remember when dealing with Windows paths in double quotes is that you needs to properly escape the backslashes. E.g. your path could be one of the following (they all are the same after yaml parsing) # when not using quotes, no need to escape anything path: C:\working\{{ inventory_hostname }} # when using single quotes, you don't need to escape backslashes path: 'C:\working\{{ inventory_hostname }}' # when using double quotes, you need to escape backslashes, e.g. \n is newline with \\n <file://n> is "\n" as text path: "C:\\working\\{{ inventory_hostname }}" We have some guides around this here https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_usage.html#path-formatting-for-windows but ultimately I try to avoid quotes if possiible and if I need to use them, then I favor single quotes. Thanks Jordan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/54b57262-6739-4488-8c83-4203640849dd%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/54b57262-6739-4488-8c83-4203640849dd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/391701d3f363%2444b5bfb0%24ce213f10%24%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
