Give nice error message if destination directory doesn't exist (issue #1048)

12 years ago · f52624f6d2
parent f8a9541405
commit f52624f6d2
1 changed files with 2 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/library/copy
+++ b/library/copy
@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ def main():
            module.fail_json(msg="Destination %s cannot be a directory" % (dest))
        md5sum_dest = module.md5(dest)
    else:
+        if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(dest)):
+            module.fail_json(msg="Destination directory %s does not exist" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))
        if not os.access(os.path.dirname(dest), os.W_OK):
            module.fail_json(msg="Destination %s not writable" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))