expandvars¶

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Added in version 1.5.

Synopsis¶

Will do a shell-like substitution of environment variables on the provided input.

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input str required		A string that contains environment variables.

# To get '/home/myuser/stuff.txt' from '$HOME/stuff.txt'
{{ mypath | expandvars }}

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	str	The string with translated environment variable values.