can not source ~/.bashrc file with ansible
From reading your comments, you stated that you are trying to make permanate aliases and not for a particular session. Why not create those aliases inside of /etc/profile.d on the machines you need to have those particular aliases on instead of by user?
Also, from another post that popped up when I ran a google search on Ansible specifics as I am no Ansible expert... Not possible to source .bashrc with Ansible (thanks to @chucksmash for the link)
"Steve Midgley
You have two options to use source with ansible. One is with the "shell:" command and /bin/sh (the ansible default). "source" is called "." in /bin/sh. So your command would be:
-name: source bashrc
sudo: no
shell: . /home/username/.bashrc && [the actual command you want run]
Note you have to run a command after sourcing .bashrc b/c each ssh session is distinct - every ansible command runs in a separate ssh transaction.
Your second option is to force Ansible shell to use bash and then you can use the "source" command:\
name: source bashrc
sudo: no
shell: source /home/username/.bashrc && [the actual command you want run]
args:
executable: /bin/bash
Finally, I'll note that you may want to actually source "/etc/profile" if you're on Ubuntu or similar, which more completely simulates a local login."
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Updated on September 15, 2022Comments
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Ajeet Khan over 1 year
I have a list of aliases in a file,
.bash_aliases
, which is being copied to remote servers withansible playbook
. The file is getting copied to the destination but the.bashrc
(which in turns load the.bash_aliases
) file is not getting loaded using the following ansible task.I have tried giving the executable argument
- name: source the .bashrc file shell: source ~/.bashrc args: executables: "/bin/bash"
Without argument
- name: source the .bashrc file shell: source ~/.bashrc
With raw module
- name: source the .bashrc file raw: source ~/.bashrc
With command module - name: source the .bashrc file command: source ~/.bashrc
Nothing works!!! Any help
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Karoly Horvath over 8 yearsHow do you "know" it's not getting loaded? Post something that reproduces the problem.
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Sebastian Stigler over 8 yearsI assume that you want to use some aliases in later tasks. If that is the case then you are out of luck because ansible put each task in a seperate python script, then copy it to the host and then execute it. Any alias you set in a previous task will not be seen in any following task.
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chucksmash about 8 yearsIf you look at the URL of the other site you linked, you'll see they are just reproducing StackOverflow content ("...q/stackoverflow/22256884/...". The answer is available here