path: /tmp/"{{ now(fmt="%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.txt") }}"

should be

      path: /tmp/{{ now(fmt="%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.txt") }}


On 7/26/23 2:37 PM, dbs34 wrote:
cool I see thank you!  but how do you avoid the special characters in the file name?  like so.
' "2023_07_26_14_34_22.txt" '

---

- name: date format filename
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: 0

  tasks:

    - name: create my file
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: /tmp/"{{ now(fmt="%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.txt") }}"
        state: touch
...
On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 2:20:09 PM UTC-4 Andrew Latham wrote:

    *
    https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior

    *
    
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py#L829-L839

    typed without testing, sorry, give it a go

    - name: create my file
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: /tmp/{{ now(fmt="%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.txt") }}
        state: touch

    On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 3:09 AM javed khan Siddque
    <[email protected]> wrote:

        Hi All,


        I want to convert the below time to human readable format, i
        tried some of the jinza formatter but it is failing .
        Failed
        {{ iso_date|iso8601_to_time|datetimeformat('%a, %B %d') }}
        requirement 2023-07-20 16:36:44
        So i can convert this to <file_name>_2023_07_20_16_36_44 .txt


        
"created":"2023-07-20T16:36:44.396234Z","modified":"2023-07-20T16:37:26.400464Z",

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