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zerocool
zerocool

Reputation: 833

ansible access results and file paths in nested loop

I am working on small playbook that will search for files in specified directories and then delete them if they met certain conditions. I have following playbook so far

- hosts:
    - localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: find logs
      find:
        paths: "{{ item.0 }}"
        file_type: file
        patterns: "{{ item.1 }}"
      register: find_logs
      with_nested:
        - ["/var/log/apache2", "/var/log/nginx"]
        - ["access.log", "error.log"]

    - debug:
        var: item
      loop:
        - "{{ find_logs }}"

So this will obviously look into /var/log/apache2 and /var/log/nginx directories and search for access.log and error.log files. Now, following ansible's documentation I want to access files return values and their paths. The issue I'm having right now is with nested loop and registered find_logs variable which holds list of dictionaries in results key. If I do find_logs.results then I will get a list of dictionaries and each of these dictionaries will have another list of files kept in files section. How can I 'flatten' this list even more to be able to retrieve files.path for every element produced by nested loop? To be honest I also tried find_logs | json_query('results[*].files[*]') but that gives me another list and I can't seem to iterate over it to get what I want (which is path of file). Any idea on how to make this work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 895

Answers (1)

zerocool
zerocool

Reputation: 833

I completely misunderstood documentation for find module, Nested loop can be excluded in this case and replaced with following syntax

- hosts:
    - localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: find logs
      find:
        paths:
            - /var/log/apache2
            - /var/log/nginx
        file_type: file
        patterns:
            - "access.log"
            - "error.log"
            - "other_vhosts_access.log"
      register: find_logs

    - name: check what was registered
      debug:
        msg: "my path -> {{ item.path }}"
      with_items:
        - "{{ find_logs.files }}"

Upvotes: 2

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