Thanks for the reply, I ended using
- name: Find file >=1GB
find:
path: /var/log
patterns: "wasabi-intuit-main*.log"
file_type: file
size: 1g
recursive: true
register: files_too_large
because the file is in another level deep than /var/log and the nested
loops seems to be too complicated. I would really love is find's path can
also take a regex instead of just the pattern on the file matching.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 9:06:59 AM UTC-8, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> On 15. nov. 2016 00:15, Felix Gao wrote:
> > thanks for your explanation and I have made some progress but I am
> further
> > stopped by the next stage.
> > My problem is that I have a dynamic directory that generate log file in
> > certain directories with the following format
> >
> /var/log/app-YYYYMMDD-RANDOM_HASH/log_file_name-YYYYMMDDMMSS-[audit,console,access,].log
>
>
> > and I am trying to find all the logs in that directory that are more
> than
> > 1GB then trim it.
>
> Can't you just do this in one find?
>
> - name: Find file >=1GB
> find:
> path: /var/log
> patterns: "wasabi-intuit-main*.log"
> file_type: file
> size: 1g
> register: files_too_large
>
>
> >
> > I have these in my tasks
> >
> > tasks:
> > #using the shell command because we need * expansion, otherwise if
> we
> > know the exact directory we can use command module instead
> > - name: list log directory to find wasabi main directory name
> > find:
> > paths: [ "/var/log/" ]
> > patterns: "wasabi-intuit-main*"
> > file_type: directory
> > register: out_directories
> > ignore_errors: True
> >
> > - name: list log files for wasabi intuit main
> > find:
> > paths: "{{item.path}}"
> > patterns: "wasabi-intuit-main*.log"
> > file_type: file
> > register: out_files
> > with_items: "{{ out_directories.files }}"
> > ignore_errors: True
> >
> > but it seems the returned out_files variable is a dict. the key is
> another
> > dict of the previous job and the value is a dict from find return values
> > with added properties like "changed","examined", and "msg". now I am
> > confused on how to iterate that object so I can filter the result.
> >
> > I have tried "{{ out_files.values().files }}" and "{{
> > out_files.results.files }}" which does not seems to work
>
> This is going to be somewhat complicated, I do recommend looking at
> doing it with less loops.
>
> out_file.results.0.files will contain all files in the fist directory
> from out_directories
> out_file.results.1.files will contain all files in the second directory
> from out_directories
> ...
> ...
>
>
> If you still want to iterate on out_files you will have to look av
> with_subelements.
>
> Probably someting like this
> - debug: var=item.1.path
> with_subelements:
> - "{{ out_file.results }}"
> - files
>
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
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