From 6d841d120eb3d73d539c11859164316d75663546 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:57:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Don't process shell commands as arrays.

---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index 09bdde6cd30..2d459873146 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -1019,7 +1019,8 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
             self.fail_json(rc=257, cmd=args, msg=msg)
 
         # expand things like $HOME and ~
-        args = [ os.path.expandvars(os.path.expanduser(x)) for x in args ]
+        if not shell:
+            args = [ os.path.expandvars(os.path.expanduser(x)) for x in args ]
 
         rc = 0
         msg = None