How to overwrite the content of a file in remote systems using Ansible playbook

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new in Ansible. I want to replace the content of a file in my remote systems using Ansible playbook. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can find one argument in the copy module named content. It allows us to overwrite the content of a file using Ansible playbook. I have attached one example below for your reference. 

copy: 
  content: '# This file was moved to /etc/mine.conf' 
  dest: /etc/mine.conf