Thanks for the reply! It makes sense really but for some reason my supervisor asked if these files can be edited directly but that really does't make any sense unless if I created like some sort of class or database within the tool to recognize different formats and open its associated software. I have another question though. Does ansible produce reports that show who and when did a change happen to a specific file? Best, Saleh On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 4:51:58 PM UTC+3, Brian Coca wrote: > > So ansible detects changes on a file by doing checksums, so format > does not matter. Ansible does not edit files (with the exceptions i > noted above), but it can overwrite a file with a newer copy (it does > not need to open Excel to overwrite a spreadsheet). > > As for making changes to the files, Ansible is a batch system, not > designed for interactive applications, so if you need to open Autocad > to manually make a change, that is something you need to do manually. > If on the other hand you want to run against an applications API a set > of programmatic changes, then yes use Ansible, still it really does > nothing itself to detect file type, it normally does not care. > -- > Brian Coca >
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