Wow new modules I have not used before. I shall test that out. Thank you so much for your input.
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 11:24:08 UTC+1, Goetz Leupold wrote: > > > > Am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017 11:34:17 UTC+2 schrieb David Searle: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am fairly new to ansible but have been googling around for the answer >> to this and just cannot find anything that matches my request. So I wonder >> if you can assist please?? >> >> >> Basically I have a very long playbook to build an environment and set >> permissions etc etc etc and I have been instructed that at the very >> beginning of the PB I need to set a condition that IF a certain directory >> already contains files (any files at all) then the PB should exit, else it >> should continue with the rest of the installation and other bits. >> >> How on earth do I do that sort of thing?? I just cannot see a module that >> helps me apart from it something that checks that the directory exists >> which is not what I want. >> > >> Thanks for any constructive input. >> >> >> > With 2 to 3 tasks i guess: > > # http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/find_module.html > > - name: Find files in {{ path }} > find: > paths: "{{ path }}" > > patterns: '*.*' > > register: foundFiles > > # http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/meta_module.html > > - meta: end_play > when: foundFiles.matched > 0 > > Optionally you could insert a debug msg task between these two, to write > sth. like "ending play". > > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/8f8c56c6-57ba-41e8-b360-4d7c426eabf8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
