quote

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 2.10.

Synopsis

• Quote a string to safely use as in a POSIX shell.

Parameters

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input str required		String to quote.

Notes

Note

• This is a passthrough to Python's C(shlex.quote).

Examples

- name: Run a shell command
  shell: echo {{ string_value | quote }}

Return Values

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	str	Quoted string.