Nope, simpler, as in docs: with_fileglob: - /splat/*.txt
-- Michael On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Walid <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Michael, will do that. what was the new lookup plugin : with_items: "/foo/pattern/*.txt | fileglob"? On 23 November 2013 00:13, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Fileglob always runs locally, this is true. > > You should probably run a command like "ls" remotely and register the > result, and then iterate over the result.stdout_lines variable. > > > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Walid <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Michael, >> >> i tried with_fileglob first, however it references or resolves files from >> the local machine running ansible-playbook, not the remote managed machine. >> what i am trying to do is to change remote configuration files using >> lineinfile module. >> >> kind regards >> >> Walid >> >> >> >> >> On 22 November 2013 23:56, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> http://ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks_loops.html#looping-over-fileglobs >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Walid <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I would like to run the module lineinfile against several files that >>>> exist on the remote managed host. I saw in the changelog for 1.4 >>>> that i can use the following lookup plugin feature: >>>> " added a fileglob filter that will return files matching a glob >>>> pattern. with_items: "/foo/pattern/*.txt | fileglob" >>>> however i did not seem to get it right, see below, could you please let >>>> me know what other possible ways to do this, or what i might be doing wrong >>>> below >>>> I tried it with a simple debug task as follows: >>>> >>>> - action: shell echo "{{ item }}" >>>> with_items: >>>> - " /etc/* | fileglob" >>>> register: task >>>> tags: >>>> - globtest >>>> - debug: msg="{{item.item}}" >>>> with_items: task.results >>>> when: item.changed == True >>>> tags: >>>> - globtest >>>> >>>> >>>> however it did not work for me as i expected it, it returned the >>>> following : >>>> TASK: [common | shell echo ""] >>>> ************************************************ >>>> changed: [tlcav117] => (item= /etc/* | fileglob) >>>> >>>> TASK: [common | debug msg="{{item.item}}"] >>>> ************************************ >>>> ok: [tlcav117] => (item={'item': ' /etc/* | fileglob', u'delta': >>>> u'0:00:00.002148', u'cmd': u'echo " /etc/* | fileglob" ', u'end': >>>> u'2013-11-22 23:44:54.216654', u'stderr': u'', u'stdout': u' /etc/* | >>>> fileglob', 'invocation': {'module_name': 'shell', 'module_args': u'echo " >>>> /etc/* | fileglob"'}, u'changed': True, u'rc': 0, u'start': u'2013-11-22 >>>> 23:44:54.214506'}) => { >>>> "item": { >>>> "changed": true, >>>> "cmd": "echo \" /etc/* | fileglob\" ", >>>> "delta": "0:00:00.002148", >>>> "end": "2013-11-22 23:44:54.216654", >>>> "invocation": { >>>> "module_args": "echo \" /etc/* | fileglob\"", >>>> "module_name": "shell" >>>> }, >>>> "item": " /etc/* | fileglob", >>>> "rc": 0, >>>> "start": "2013-11-22 23:44:54.214506", >>>> "stderr": "", >>>> "stdout": " /etc/* | fileglob" >>>> }, >>>> "msg": " /etc/* | fileglob" >>>> } >>>> >>>> regards >>>> >>>> Walid >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> >>> CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. >>> http://www.ansibleworks.com/ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> > CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. > http://www.ansibleworks.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. 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