Not really clear why command or shell doesn’t meet your needs but take a look at find, file or stat perhaps. See full list of modules below:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_all_modules.html Regards Phil From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 19 July 2019 10:40 To: Ansible Project <[email protected]> Subject: [ansible-project] Is there any Alternative of command/shell module I prepared a playbook as follows: --- - hosts: localhost vars: directory_name: /root/raka-tests/ tasks: - name: List the Contents of dir command: ls -lrt {{ directory_name }} register: files - debug: msg: "{{ files.stdout_lines}}" o/p: TASK [debug] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** ok: [localhost] => { "msg": [ "total 80", "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 945 Jul 12 05:53 rel.yml", "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 280 Jul 12 06:19 playbook.yaml", "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 237 Jul 12 09:00 rakesh.yml", "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 179 Jul 15 05:40 playbook2.yml", "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 376 Jul 15 05:49 playbook3.yml", "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 376 Jul 15 05:52 playbook4.yml", I dont want to use command/shell module. Is there any module which will show me the list sof contents of adirectory -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/cd9ca004-a446-4900-9fe1-180cd76a22eb%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/cd9ca004-a446-4900-9fe1-180cd76a22eb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/4670a6b25881475da73efad653593f5c%40bham.ac.uk.
