Ansible playbook create relative link

Question

Could someone let me know how to create a relative symlink.

I have files under following folder.

/usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test-1.2.3.jar

And I was to create link in this folder which points to this jar. something like

test.jar -> test-1.2.3.jar

However with following ansible code, it takes absolute path.

  - name: create soft link
    file:
        src: "/usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test-1.2.3.jar"
        dest: "/usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test.jar"
        state: link
        force: yes

outout

test.jar -> /usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test-1.2.3.jar

check this out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48560311/ansible-create-a-relative-symlink — Venu S, Jul 06 '20 at 19:56

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '20 at 20:33

Try this


  - name: create soft link
    file:
        src: "test-1.2.3.jar"
        path: "/usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/test.jar"
        state: link
        force: yes

Quoting from parameter src:

Relative paths are relative to the file being created (path) which is how the Unix command ln -s SRC DEST treats relative paths.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '20 at 20:00

1

you can try the shell module instead. In your case, if is taking the absolute path, because thats how source and destination are given.

- name: Create a Symlink
  shell:
    cmd: ln -s test-1.2.3.jar test.jar
    chdir: /usr/share/aws/hive/encryption/

answered Jul 06 '20 at 20:00

Venu S

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is there a way I can give source and destination in different way? – Gaurang Shah Jul 06 '20 at 20:08
I believe vladimir answer should work for you. what do you mean different way? do you want use variables ? – Venu S Jul 06 '20 at 22:57

Ansible playbook create relative link

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