Powershell command as a variable in Ansible

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I am using win_shell module to execute a command op remote host. But ansible is not setting the value the right way (or me of course)

I set a variable that enable or disable scheduled tasks based on user input in Ansible Tower

tasks: 
  - name: disable enable tasks without ebs based on user input
    win_shell: '"{{ command_to_execute }}" -TaskName "{{ task_name }}"'

the user input in Ansible tower:

    - command_to_execute: Enable-ScheduledTask
     or 
    - command_to_execute: Disable-ScheduledTask

The job succeded but not enabeling or disableing anything. in the output i can see that:

    "cmd": "\"[u'Enable-ScheduledTask']\" -TaskName 
     \"start_something\"",

so instead of

      Enable-ScheduledTask

i get

      [u'Enable-ScheduledTask'] .

Why is that?

Anton · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-12 13:23:26Z

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It looks like you've got list of one element 'Enable-ScheduledTask' in your {{ command_to_execute }} variable. The most short and straightforward way would be using {{ command_to_execute | first }}

answered Jul 12, 2019 at 13:23

Anton

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mklement0 Over a year ago

That seems like an important first step, but note the the {{ command_to_execute }} value is enclosed in "...". In PowerShell, in order to execute a command whose name is stored in a quoted string, you must prepend &, the call operator: '& "{{ ... ; alternatively, simply omit the enclosing double quotes in this case.

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