I don’t think you can achieve what you want if the file keep generating.
Ansible is not real time monitor/scanning. The most recently at the point of
time when you trigger only.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Thanh.
> On 23 Dec 2022, at 11:55, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 7:10 PM Vladimir Botka <vbo...@gmail.com> 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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