slurp - Slurps a file from remote nodes

Synopsis

This module works like fetch. It is used for fetching a base64- encoded blob containing the data in a remote file.

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
src	yes			The file on the remote system to fetch. This must be a file, not a directory.

ansible host -m slurp -a 'src=/tmp/xx'
   host | success >> {
      "content": "aGVsbG8gQW5zaWJsZSB3b3JsZAo=",
      "encoding": "base64"
   }

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