It means that the task will run if it does find the string 'reboot' in the
stdout of the registered reboot_hint variable.  It's just calling this:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.find

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:44 AM Arbab Nazar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone, I have an ambiguity in the find command. Can somebody clarify
> it. I have paste the tasks down(copy from some blog post on the net). I
> have an ambiguity in the second task where it says
>
> reboot_hint.stdout.find("reboot") != -1
>
> What does it mean, that run this task if you will not find the "reboot"
> word in the value of reboot_init variable?
> OR
> run this task if you will find the "reboot" word in the value of
> reboot_init variable?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> - name: Check for reboot hint.
>   shell: if [ $(readlink -f /vmlinuz) != /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) ]; then 
> echo 'reboot'; else echo 'no'; fi
>   ignore_errors: true
>   register: reboot_hint
>
> - name: Rebooting ...
>   command: shutdown -r now "Ansible kernel update applied"
>   async: 0
>   poll: 0
>   ignore_errors: true
>   when: kernelup|changed or reboot_hint.stdout.find("reboot") != -1
>   register: rebooting
>
> - name: Wait for thing to reboot...
>   pause: seconds=45
>   when: rebooting|changed
>
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