How to create a symlink using ansible.builtin.file with wildcard in src path?

Question

I'm trying code

    - name: create a symlink
      ansible.builtin.file:
        src: /usr/share/easy-rsa/*
        dest: ~/easy-rsa/
        state: link

but getting err Error while replacing: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/usr/share/easy-rsa/*'

Is it possible to create a symlink with ansible.builtin.file using wildcard?

Answer 1

Is it possible to create a symlink with ansible.builtin.file using wildcard?

In short,

No. Symbolic link resolution is handled by the kernel whereas globbing is shell-specific.¹

No, that is not how file systems work. A file system stores existing file names, not potential file names.²

If using shell module with Bash you could do something like this.

The long answer would be to check the existence of directories and create the symlinks within a loop. For this a few tasks will be necessary.

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