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Kit Sunde
Asked: 2016-12-11 03:43:53 +0800 CST

Is there a zcat equivalent for ansible?

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Is there a nicer way of doing zcat in ansible than invoking shell?

- name: "Unpack the local config"
  shell: "zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config"
  args:
    creates: "/usr/src/linux/.config"
ansible

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  1. Best Answer

    In the future there might be an uncompress module, but today no:

    https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/3241#issuecomment-240991265

    The unarchive module only supports archives, not compressed files. The documentation was improved to make that more clear. We anticipate a new pure-python uncompress module that will support compressed files as well as archives, which would then deprecate the unarchive module.

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