Execute a bash script with arguments in Ansible

Question

I am new to Ansible. I have a bash script which has three arguments to be passed. I have to run this bash script on the remote server from Ansible.

Basically, I want to declare the hostname, duration and the comment fields as arguments while executing the Ansible command. I don't want to edit the file, as I am doing it from a Slack channel.

- hosts: nagiosserver

  tasks:
   - name: Executing a script
     command: sh /home/aravind/downtime.sh {hostname} {duration} {comments}

Welcome to Stack overflow could you please edit and add your sh file content — Barkermn01
– Barkermn01, Commented Jul 31, 2017 at 20:36

Hammett · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-31 23:41:58Z

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If you're executing ansible via ansible-playbook myplay.yml, you can pass additional variables via -e varname=varvalue. A lazy fix would be to run with

ansible-playbook myplay.yml -e my_hostname=foo -e my_duration=bar -e my_comments=foobar

But you should consider that the hostname is already defined in your inventory or gathered facts.

So you could update your playbook to use these additional variables using

- hosts: nagiosserver

  tasks:
    - name: Executing a script
    - command: "sh /home/aravind/downtime.sh {{my_hostname}} {{my_duration}} {{my_comments}}"

answered Jul 31, 2017 at 23:41

Hammett

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