Yeah, you can register the output of a shell command as a fact, below is
simple example. Matts reply looks much nicer though, i would use his so
you are not dependent on shell commands.
from the man page of date:
> -r, --reference=FILE
> display the last modification time of FILE
working example (replace filenametocheck with your actual filename)
>
> - hosts: localhost
> connection: local
> tasks:
> - shell: "echo $((($(date +%s) - $(date +%s -r 'filenametocheck')) /
> 86400))"
> register: file_check
> - set_fact:
> file_days: "{{ file_check.stdout |int }}"
> - debug:
> msg: "file is {{ file_days }} days old"
On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 7:47:04 PM UTC-7, Andy Magana wrote:
>
> So I really have been racking my melon on this so your saying I can echo
> with the shell module what is the -r any way ?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:42 PM Adam E <abed...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>> You could run a "shell" command and register the output to a variable
>> using a command something like the following:
>>
>> echo $((($(date +%s) - $(date +%s -r "$filename")) / 86400))
>>
>>
>> Alternatively, you could develop a action_plugin
>> <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/action.html> that could
>> accept the filename as a parameter and perform the logic in python by first
>> calling the stat
>> <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/stat_module.html>
>> module on the file as it also returns the last modification time of the
>> file via mtime.
>>
>> On Monday, April 29, 2019 at 2:43:07 PM UTC-7, Andy Magana wrote:
>>>
>>> So I created a simple bash script to compare dates of the current date
>>> and last date of a directory that was last modified.
>>>
>>> What I am looking for is something done in Ansible that can take the
>>> converted date string of two variables and subtract the difference.
>>>
>>> We have these DAT MacAfee files, I just don’t like the bash script I
>>> created and looking for something that can be done with a yaml playbook.
>>>
>>> So here is my script:
>>>
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> # TO PRINT THE NUMBER OF DAYS SINCE LAST AV UPDATE
>>> past_date=$(du -h --time testdate | grep -Eo
>>> '[[:digit:]]{4}-[[:digit:]]{2}-[[:digit:]]{2}')
>>>
>>>
>>> # Perform a subtraction of past_date string
>>> # from today's string divided by seconds times 12 hour days
>>> diff=$((($(date +%s)-$(date +%s --date "$past_date"))/(3600*24)))
>>> echo It has been $diff days since the last AV DAT update
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Andy Magana
>>>
>>> Oklahoma, City OK
>>>
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