- name: Check if file exists hosts: localhost tasks: - name: Get file information stat: path: /path/to/file.txt register: file_info - name: Print file existence debug: msg: "File exists" when: file_info.stat.exists - name: Print file does not exist debug: msg: "File does not exi...
--- - hosts: test become: false gather_facts: false tasks: - name: Gather installed pip version, if there is any shell: cmd: pip --version | cut -d ' ' -f 2 register: result failed_when: result.rc != 0 and result.rc != 127 # Since this is a reporting task, it should nev...
We don't want to display these in the ui so we omit them. Although the stdout field is an empty string, it still has a recorded line length of 1 that we must account for. Since we're not rendering the blank line, we must also go back and set the event record's line length to...
like sudo cp /path/to/src /path/to/dest. I understand why this wouldn’t work if it tries to access the source and destination file using my own user – if that’s the case, then maybe I need to run sudo cp using the command module. ...