You want something like this:
- debug:
msg: "Timestamp of {{ path }}: {{ '%c'|strftime(reg.stat.mtime) }}"
Documentation about the strftime filter can be found at
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_filters.html
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:36 AM Jim Griffiths <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I need to display the date-time that a file was last updated.
>
> The value can be obtained with stat on the file:
>
> - name: Get file stats
>
> stat: path="{{ path_of_file }}"
>
> register: reg
>
>
> - debug:
>
> msg: “Timestamp of {{path}}: {{reg.stat.mtime}}”
>
>
> However the output is meaningless because it is a float value.
> The only solution I could find requires the creation of a custom filter:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41084097/ansible-cast-float-to-date
>
> Is there a simpler way?
>
> Thank you all.
> Jim
>
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