On Thursday, 30 November 2017 19.04.03 CET [email protected] wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to compare a file that resides on two separate 
> hosts before and/or after a deployment? Meaning, I want to compare foo.conf 
> on host1 against foo.conf on host2. If there are disparities, then list 
> them in an output file. 

Use the fetch module to get the file to the Ansible controller, then you can 
diff them.


> I've read about a number of ways to potentially approach this (using diff 
> command, shell module, stat module with get_checksum param, check mode, 
> etc.). But none of them have given exactly what I need yet.

If diff is not what you need I'm out of ideas since diff print out the 
differences in two text files.


-- 
Kai Stian Olstad

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