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I use ansible 1.9.4 and I would like to get the list of files from a local directory.
In 2.0 version, there is the find module but this version is beta.
How to do this in < 2.0 ?
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with_fileglob matches all files in a single directory, non-recursively, that match a pattern. It calls Python's glob library. (plus a warning about relative paths with roles).
In an Ansible playbook, when local_action is used, Ansible will run the module work mentioned under it on the controller node. Mostly modules used with local_action are shell and command. As you can do almost all the tasks using these modules on the controller node.
slurp - Slurps a file from remote nodes This module works like fetch. It is used for fetching a base64- encoded blob containing the data in a remote file. This module is also supported for Windows targets.
Some time ago I was building an automation that required something like that - see Ansible send file to the first met destination.
Prior to ansible 2.0 there's no way to do this without using command or shell.
If you really can't upgrade to ansible 2.0, use the command module:
vars:
directory: /path/to/dir
tasks:
- command: "ls {{directory}}"
register: dir_out
- debug: var={{item}}
with_items: dir_out.stdout_lines
This is an example of listing all the files with .j2 extension in the directory templates and passing them to a module.
template: src="{{ item }}" dest="generated/{{ inventory_hostname }}/{{ item | basename | replace('.j2', '')}}"
delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
with_fileglob: templates/*.j2
Now there is a find module you can use. Example: show folders with name starting with "ansible" and location /tmp, so /tmp/ansible*
- name: ls -d /tmp/ansible*
find:
paths: /tmp
patterns: "ansible*"
recurse: no
file_type: directory
register: found_directories
- debug:
msg: "{{ [item.path] }} "
with_items: "{{ found_directories.files }}"
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