ANSIBLE.COMMAND(3)

NAME
command - Executes a command on a remote node

DESCRIPTION

The command module takes the command name followed by a list of space-delimited arguments.

The given command will be executed on all selected nodes. It will not be processed through the shell, so variables like $HOME and operations like "<", ">", "|", and "&" will not work. As such, all paths to commands must be fully qualified

OPTIONS

chdir
    cd into this directory before running the command(Added in Ansible version 0.6.)

creates
    a filename, when it already exists, this step will not be run.

executable
    change the shell used to execute the command. Should be an absolute path to the executable.(Added in Ansible version 0.9.)

free_form
    the command module takes a free form command to run(required)

removes
    a filename, when it does not exist, this step will not be run.(Added in Ansible version 0.8.)

NOTES

If you want to run a command through the shell (say you are using <, >, |, etc), you actually want the shell module instead. The command module is much more secure as it's not affected by the user's environment.

EXAMPLES

Example from Ansible Playbooks
command: /sbin/shutdown -t now

creates, removes, and chdir can be specified after the command. For instance, if you only want to run a command if a certain file does not exist, use this.
command: /usr/bin/make_database.sh arg1 arg2 creates=/path/to/database
None

AUTHOR
Michael DeHaan

SEE ALSO
ansible(1), http://ansible.github.com/modules.html#command