Thanks for the advice, Matt!
Here's what I ended up using:
- debug:
msg: “Timestamp of {{logpath}}: {{ '*%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' |
strftime*(reg.stat.mtime)
}}”
Cheers
Jim
On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 10:42:59 AM UTC-4, Matt Martz wrote:
>
> 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]
> <javascript:>> 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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