Re: [ansible-project] Nested directory walking question

2014-07-24 Thread Bill Lubanovic
Thanks, Michael. It looks like with_fileglob() only shows files, not directories, so that wouldn't work for me. I'm testing a workaround using find or ls, then split() to grab b, c, and d. It would be nice to pass b and c as arguments to a task using the synchronize module. On Wednesday, July

Re: [ansible-project] Nested directory walking question

2014-07-24 Thread Michael DeHaan
I wouldn't shell out. I'd call python's very handy os.path.walk with a custom function. If you'd like to talk about this, ansible-devel is probably a bit more on topic (and I'm trying to spur that list into greater life). On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Bill Lubanovic b...@madscheme.com

[ansible-project] Nested directory walking question

2014-07-23 Thread Bill Lubanovic
I'd like to walk a directory hierarchy of the form a/b/c/d. a is a fixed root directory, and isn't relevant. I have a number of b directories, which represent machine categories. Under each b are zero or more c directories, which are string values for that category. Finally, d is a directory

Re: [ansible-project] Nested directory walking question

2014-07-23 Thread Michael DeHaan
So there's already with_fileglob in Ansible - debug: msg={{ path }} with_fileglob: /path/to/files/*/*.tgz This isn't recursive however, despite being able to specify multiple directories to read. It would be possible to make a lookup plugin that was, like a with_fileglob_recursive that used