Added file copy support w/ readme updates

README.md

@@ -41,8 +41,15 @@ The default inventory file (-H) is ~/.ansible_hosts and is a list
 of all hostnames to target with ansible, one per line.  These
 can be hostnames or IPs
 
+Example:
+
+    abc.example.com
+    def.example.com
+    192.168.10.50
+    192.168.10.51
+
 This list is further filtered by the pattern wildcard (-P) to target
-specific hosts.
+specific hosts.  This is covered below.
 
 Comamnd line usage example
 ==========================
@@ -51,36 +58,51 @@ Run a module by name with arguments
  
    * ssh-agent bash
    * ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
-   * ansible -p "*.example.com" -m modName -a "arg1 arg2"
+   * ansible -p "*.example.com" -n modName -a "arg1 arg2"
 
 API Example
 ===========
 
 The API is simple and returns basic datastructures.
 
-import ansible
-runner = ansible.Runner(command='inventory', host_list=['xyz.example.com', '...'])
-data = runner.run()
+    import ansible
+    runner = ansible.Runner(command='inventory', host_list=['xyz.example.com', '...'])
+    data = runner.run()
 
-{
-    'xyz.example.com' : [ 'any kind of datastructure is returnable' ],
-    'foo.example.com' : None, # failed to connect,
-    ...
-}
+    {
+        'xyz.example.com' : [ 'any kind of datastructure is returnable' ],
+        'foo.example.com' : None, # failed to connect,
+        ...
+    }
 
 Additional options to runner include the number of forks, hostname
 exclusion pattern, library path, and so on.  Read the source, it's not
 complicated.
 
+Patterns
+========
+
+To target only hosts starting with "rtp", for example:
+
+   * ansible "rtp*" -n command -a "yum update apache"
+
+
 Parallelism
 ===========
 
 Specify the number of forks to use, to run things in greater parallelism.
 
-    * ansible -f 10 "*.example.com" -m modName -a "arg1 arg2"
+    * ansible -f 10 "*.example.com" -n command -a "yum update apache"
 
 10 forks.  The default is 3.  5 is right out.
 
+File Transfer
+=============
+
+Yeah, it does that too.
+
+   * ansible -n copy -a "/etc/hosts /tmp/hosts"
+
 Bundled Modules
 ===============
 
@@ -119,8 +141,8 @@ Future plans
 Author
 ======
 
-Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com> 
+    Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com> 
 
-http://michaeldehaan.net/
+    http://michaeldehaan.net/
 
 

bin/ansible

@@ -35,10 +35,13 @@ class Cli(object):
         options, args = parser.parse_args()
         host_list      = self._host_list(options.host_list)
 
+        # TODO: more shell like splitting on module_args would
+        # be a good idea
+
         return ansible.Runner(
             module_name=options.module_name,
             module_path=options.module_path,
-            module_args=options.module_args,
+            module_args=options.module_args.split(' '),
             host_list=host_list,
             forks=options.forks,
             pattern=options.pattern,

lib/ansible/__init__.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class Pooler(object):
 class Runner(object):
 
    def __init__(self, host_list=[], module_path=None,
-       module_name=None, module_args='', 
+       module_name=None, module_args=[], 
        forks=3, timeout=60, pattern='*'):
 
        self.host_list   = host_list
@@ -73,15 +73,22 @@ class Runner(object):
        conn = self._connect(host)
        if not conn:
            return [ host, None ]
-       outpath = self._copy_module(conn)
-       self._exec_command(conn, "chmod +x %s" % outpath)
-       cmd = self._command(outpath)
-       result = self._exec_command(conn, cmd)
-       result = json.loads(result)
+       if self.module_name != "copy":
+           outpath = self._copy_module(conn)
+           self._exec_command(conn, "chmod +x %s" % outpath)
+           cmd = self._command(outpath)
+           result = self._exec_command(conn, cmd)
+           result = json.loads(result)
+       else:
+           ftp = conn.open_sftp()
+           ftp.put(self.module_args[0], self.module_args[1])
+           ftp.close()
+           return [ host, 1 ]
+           
        return [ host, result ]
 
    def _command(self, outpath):
-       cmd = "%s %s" % (outpath, self.module_args)
+       cmd = "%s %s" % (outpath, " ".join(self.module_args))
        return cmd
 
    def _exec_command(self, conn, cmd):

library/copy

+# copy is built-in to ansible's core, so the module here is just a placeholder