I figured it out. I also switched to batch mode instead of single mode:
shell: "find /home/staff -gid {{item.0.stdout}} -exec chgrp {{item.1.stdout}}
\\{\\} +"
On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 11:49:19 AM UTC-5, Joanna Delaporte wrote:
>
> I want to find and chown about 4000 users' files while migrating to a new
> authentication protocol and domain.
>
> I have a task that looks like this:
> - name: find and fix UID ownerships in all staff homedirs
> shell: "find {{'~'+item.name | expanduser }} -uid {{item.uid}} -exec
> chown {{item.name}} {} \;"
> with_items:
> - "{{staff|default([])}}"
> - "{{students|default([])}}"
> - "{{staffstuaccounts|default([])}}"
> when: item.uid is defined
>
>
> And I get this syntax error:
> - name: find and fix UID ownerships in all staff homedirs
> shell: "find {{'~'+item.name | expanduser }} -uid {{item.uid}} -exec
> chown {{item.name}} {} \;"
>
> ^ here
> We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
> missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they
> start a value.
>
> I would use built-in modules, but find doesn't find owners. Stat (as far
> as I can tell) doesn't go recursive. I'm a little nervous about registering
> output from find and then writing a new file task to chown the results
> (which would have to use with_together, I think), in case the user list
> order gets out of sync between two tasks. Is there a way to escape this
> shell expression so it will work?
>
> Thanks!
> Joanna
>
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