On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 7:10 PM Vladimir Botka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Use Ansible module *find* and sort the directories by *ctime*. For
> example, given the tree
This is only reliable if nothing else writes anything else in that
tree between the first command, tand the "tree" command.
> shell> tree /tmp/test
> /tmp/test
> ├── 2022-12-01_1701
> ├── 2022-12-01_1702
> └── 2022-12-01_1703
>
> Declare the variable
>
> last_dir: "{{ (out.files|sort(attribute='ctime')|last).path }}"
>
> The tasks below
>
> - find:
> path: /tmp/test
> file_type: directory
> register: out
> - debug:
> var: last_dir
>
> give
>
> last_dir: /tmp/test/2022-12-01_1703
>
> If you want to take look at the *ctime*
>
> path_ctime: "{{ out.files|json_query('[].[path, ctime]') }}"
>
> give
>
> path_ctime:
> - [/tmp/test/2022-12-01_1702, 1669938403.313556]
> - [/tmp/test/2022-12-01_1701, 1669938401.2335565]
> - [/tmp/test/2022-12-01_1703, 1669938405.0495553]
>
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