Thank you, that does seem to have done the trick.
On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 2:00:02 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
> You are looking win_file with the values of FilesOver30.files but setting
> the path for each of those loops to unc_path. This will just run the same
> thing, deleting that UNC path for every loop iteration. What you want to do
> is set 'path: "{{ item.path }}"' so that path is set to each of the found
> paths that you got in the previous step.
>
> On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 6:06:07 AM UTC+10 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 21:44, Jeremy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've read the documentation at the link you provided and am unsure how
>> any of that can help me. There is no other list than FilesOver30.files to
>> compare it with.
>>
>> >> >> - name: Delete all files/folders older than 30 days from
>> diagnostics folder
>> >> >> win_file:
>> >> >> path: "{{ unc_path }}"
>> >> >> state: absent
>> >> >> with_items: "{{ FilesOver30.files }}"
>>
>> If I understand your problem description correctly, the value of
>> "unc_path" is in the FIlesOver30.files list.
>> You can remove it by the difference of a list containing a single
>> item: the unc_path.
>>
>>
>> with_items: "{{ FilesOver30.files | difference([unc_path]) }}"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dick Visser
>> Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager
>> GÉANT
>>
>
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