slurp - Slurps a file from remote nodes

Author:Michael DeHaan

Synopsis

This module works like fetch. It is used for fetching a base64- encoded blob containing the data in a remote file.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
src yes
    The file on the remote system to fetch. This must be a file, not a directory.

    Examples


    ansible host -m slurp -a 'src=/tmp/xx'
       host | success >> {
          "content": "aGVsbG8gQW5zaWJsZSB3b3JsZAo=",
          "encoding": "base64"
       }
    

    Note

    See also: fetch

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