Not the same behaviour using wildcards on arguments

[juliansotoca]

Summary

Not the same behaviour using wildcards on arguments

Issue Type

• Bug Report

Ansible and Ansible Lint details

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.10.17
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/julian.sotoca/ansible/library']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.10 (default, Mar 15 2022, 12:22:08) [GCC 9.4.0]

$ ansible-lint --version
ansible-lint 5.3.2 using ansible 2.10.17

• ansible installation method: pip
• ansible-lint installation method: pip

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Ubuntu 20.04

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

If we run ansible-lint -p some_playbook.yml and ansible-lint -p some_playbook*.yml we got different output
We have the default rules enabled, no .ansible-lint is configured.

$ ansible-lint  -p my_playbook.yml
WARNING  Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument: my_playbook.yml
WARNING  Listing 268 violation(s) that are fatal
get-vault-keys.yml:8: unnamed-task All tasks should be named
roles/my_role/meta/main.yml:27: yaml missing starting space in comment (comments)
roles/my_role/meta/main.yml:35: yaml missing starting space in comment (comments)
roles/my_role/meta/main.yml:41: yaml missing starting space in comment (comments)
roles/my_role/meta/main.yml:45: yaml missing starting space in comment (comments)
roles/my_role/meta/main.yml:53: yaml missing starting space in comment (comments)
roles/my_role/meta/main.yml:64: yaml missing starting space in comment (comments)
....
my_playbook.yml:130: unnamed-task All tasks should be named
You can skip specific rules or tags by adding them to your configuration file:
# .ansible-lint
warn_list:  # or 'skip_list' to silence them completely
  - command-instead-of-module  # Using command rather than module
  - empty-string-compare  # Don't compare to empty string
  - experimental  # all rules tagged as experimental
  - no-changed-when  # Commands should not change things if nothing needs doing
  - no-jinja-nesting  # Nested jinja pattern
  - package-latest  # Package installs should not use latest
  - risky-shell-pipe  # Shells that use pipes should set the pipefail option
  - unnamed-task  # All tasks should be named
  - yaml  # Violations reported by yamllint

Finished with 238 failure(s), 30 warning(s) on 86 files.



$ ansible-lint  -p my_playbook*.yml
WARNING  Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument: my_playbook.yml
WARNING  Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument: my_playbook_abc.yml
WARNING  Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument: my_playbook_iis_server.yml
WARNING  Overriding detected file kind 'yaml' with 'playbook' for given positional argument: my_playbook_without_vault.yml
WARNING  Listing 1 violation(s) that are fatal
roles/nodejs/tasks/main.yml:65:5: syntax-check couldn't resolve module/action 'win_chocolatey'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.

Finished with 1 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 4 files.

Desired Behavior

Both command return the same output with the 238 failures.

Possible security bugs should be reported via email to security@ansible.com

Actual Behavior

If we want to use a wildcard as the argument we only get syntax-check errors.

[ssbarnea]

Not a bug, wildcards are expanded by shell and the behavior is well documented. Any argument is assumed to be a playbook.