It may be easier and less noisy to pick the path attribute and drop the
loop altogether:
- name: print collection result
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ log_search.files | map(attribute='path') }}"
On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 at 00:17, Alex Wanderley <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Yes, it worked like a charm by going with:
>
> - name: print collection result
> ansible.builtin.debug:
> msg: "{{ item.path }}"
> loop: "{{ log_search.files }}"
> loop_control:
> label: "{{ item.path }}"
>
> Again, thanks a lot!
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM Alex Wanderley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick reply, Matt...!
>>
>> I'll take a look at that...
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 4:37 PM Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The functionality you are looking for is the `label` option of
>>> `loop_control`:
>>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_loops.html#limiting-loop-output-with-label
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 5:36 PM Alex Wanderley <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> We have a simple/working playbook that looks for log files based on the
>>>> server's name and prints the file(s) it could find:
>>>>
>>>> vars:
>>>> log_files: "/path/to/directory"
>>>> tasks:
>>>> - name: Collect log files
>>>> ansible.builtin.find:
>>>> path: "{{ log_files }}/"
>>>> patterns: "*{{ inventory_hostname }}*"
>>>> register: log_search
>>>>
>>>> - name: print collection result
>>>> ansible.builtin.debug:
>>>> msg: "{{ item.path }}"
>>>> with_items: "{{ log_search.files }}"
>>>>
>>>> For each file found, the the printout looks like this:
>>>> ok: [SERVER_NAME] => (item={'path':
>>>> '/path/to/directory/logs/monitor-<SERVER_NAME>-02-2024.03.18.log', 'mode':
>>>> '0644',
>>>> 'isdir': False, 'ischr': False, 'isblk': False, 'isreg': True,
>>>> 'isfifo': False, 'islnk': False, 'issock': False, 'uid': 999, 'gid': 999,
>>>> 'size': 272091, 'inode': 12956486, 'dev': 45, 'nlink': 1, 'atime':
>>>> 1710905864.848738, 'mtime': 1710827942.815553, 'ctime': 1710827942.815553,
>>>> 'gr_name': 'xxxxx', 'pw_name': 'xxxxx', 'wusr': True, 'rusr': True,
>>>> 'xusr': False, 'wgrp': False, 'rgrp': True, 'xgrp': False, 'woth': False,
>>>> 'roth': True, 'xoth': False, 'isuid': False, 'isgid': False}) => {
>>>> "msg":
>>>> "/path/to/directory/logs/monitor-<SERVER_NAME>-02-2024.03.18.log"
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> How could I, if even possible, format the printout so it would only
>>>> show the whole path to the file, omitting/discarding all the other file
>>>> attributes information?
>>>> (And please forgive my ignorance...)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>>
>>>> Alex
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