How to move/rename a file using an Ansible task on a remote system
How is it possible to move/rename a file/directory using an Ansible module on a remote system? I don't want to use the command/shell tasks and I don't want to copy the file from the local system to the remote system.
Answer
From version 2.0, in copy module you can use remote_src parameter.
If True it will go to the remote/target machine for the src.
- name: Copy files from foo to bar
copy: remote_src=True src=/path/to/foo dest=/path/to/bar
If you want to move file you need to delete old file with file module
- name: Remove old files foo
file: path=/path/to/foo state=absent
From version 2.8 copy module remote_src supports recursive copying.