Not possible to source .bashrc with Ansible

Question

I can ssh to the remote host and do a source /home/username/.bashrc - everything works fine. However if I do:

- name: source bashrc
  sudo: no
          


        

Answer 1

I was experiencing this same issue when trying to get virtualenvwrapper to work on an Ubuntu server. I was using Ansible like this:

- name: Make virtual environment
  shell: source /home/username/.bashrc && makevirtualenv virenvname
  args:
    executable: /bin/bash

but the source command was not working.

Eventually I discovered that the .bashrc file has a few lines at the top of the file that prevent source from working when called by Ansible:

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
    *i*) ;;
      *) return;;
esac

I commented out those lines in .bashrc and everything worked as expected after that.