From 677008bef7f179ab411dd6e17c44522a4d898195 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:51:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Rejoin args list into a string for run_command when using an
 unsafe shell

This allows the use of an args list with leading environment variables,
which otherwise would fail due to the way Popen works.
---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index 069bee6224..7da09908eb 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -1009,7 +1009,9 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
 
         shell = False
         if isinstance(args, list):
-            pass
+            if use_unsafe_shell:
+                args = " ".join([pipes.quote(x) for x in args])
+                shell = True
         elif isinstance(args, basestring) and use_unsafe_shell:
             shell = True
         elif isinstance(args, basestring):