Re: [ansible-project] how to parse variable in patterns by find module

['Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)' via Ansible Project]

You are not registering the product of the task.

find:
  paths: /tmp
  recurse: false
  file_type_ file
  patterns: '^{{ item.filename }}\.[0-9]{6}.*$'
  use_regex: yes
loop: {{ file }}
register: found

You then need to look at found.files (a list) to see what is found. This is 
documented in the ansible find module.

Walter
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On Mar 13, 2023, at 12:39 PM, Hiero-nymo <jer.m.me...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've tried to using a variable in find module by pattern by it doesn't seems to 
work. Here's below a example. I also looked at another solution with set_facts 
but I doesn't run too.
I want to list all the backup files in a directory. The files have a timestamp 
and it's filename will be defined by variable.
Does anyone have an idea how should I proceed? or in which way?

Thanks in advance for your help

Here's the variables:
---
file:
  - filename: backup
    state: present
[...]

Here's the task:
---
[...]
find:
  paths: /tmp
  recurse: false
  file_type_ file
  patterns: '^{{ item.filename }}\.[0-9]{6}.*$'
  use_regex: yes
loop: {{ file }}

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