Thanks for the quick reply, Matt...!

I'll take a look at that...

Alex

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 4:37 PM Matt Martz <m...@sivel.net> wrote:

> The functionality you are looking for is the `label` option of
> `loop_control`:
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_loops.html#limiting-loop-output-with-label
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 5:36 PM Alex Wanderley <alex.wander...@edmonton.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have a simple/working playbook that looks for log files based on the
>> server's name and prints the file(s) it could find:
>>
>>   vars:
>>       log_files: "/path/to/directory"
>>   tasks:
>>     - name: Collect log files
>>       ansible.builtin.find:
>>          path: "{{ log_files }}/"
>>          patterns: "*{{ inventory_hostname }}*"
>>       register: log_search
>>
>>     - name: print collection result
>>       ansible.builtin.debug:
>>          msg: "{{ item.path }}"
>>       with_items: "{{ log_search.files }}"
>>
>> For each file found, the the printout looks like this:
>> ok: [SERVER_NAME] => (item={'path':
>> '/path/to/directory/logs/monitor-<SERVER_NAME>-02-2024.03.18.log', 'mode':
>> '0644',
>> 'isdir': False, 'ischr': False, 'isblk': False, 'isreg': True, 'isfifo':
>> False, 'islnk': False, 'issock': False, 'uid': 999, 'gid': 999,
>>  'size': 272091, 'inode': 12956486, 'dev': 45, 'nlink': 1, 'atime':
>> 1710905864.848738, 'mtime': 1710827942.815553, 'ctime': 1710827942.815553,
>>  'gr_name': 'xxxxx', 'pw_name': 'xxxxx', 'wusr': True, 'rusr': True,
>> 'xusr': False, 'wgrp': False, 'rgrp': True, 'xgrp': False, 'woth': False,
>>  'roth': True, 'xoth': False, 'isuid': False, 'isgid': False}) => {
>>       "msg":
>> "/path/to/directory/logs/monitor-<SERVER_NAME>-02-2024.03.18.log"
>> }
>>
>> How could I, if even possible, format the printout so it would only show
>> the whole path to the file, omitting/discarding all the other file
>> attributes information?
>> (And please forgive my ignorance...)
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Alex
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