skipping does not show for lists

[Jerome Yanga]

Here are some background info.

Ansible Version: 2.7.8

Created a file and folder structure with the commands below.

TEMP="/data"

mkdir -p $TEMP/dir{1,2}

touch $TEMP/file{1,2}.txt

touch $TEMP/file{3,4}.lst.txt

touch $TEMP/dir{1,2}/file{1,2}.txt

touch $TEMP/dir{1,2}/file{3,4}.lst.txt

The resulting file and folder structure will be as follows.

# ls -lhR $TEMP

/data:

total 0

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 82 Mar 14 16:37 dir1

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 82 Mar 14 16:37 dir2

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Mar 14 16:37 file1.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Mar 14 16:37 file2.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Mar 14 16:37 file3.lst.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Mar 14 16:37 file4.lst.txt

/data/dir1:

total 0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file1.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file2.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file3.lst.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file4.lst.txt

/data/dir2:

total 0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file1.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file2.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file3.lst.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file4.lst.txt

Here is the contents of the playbook.

---

 - name:  playbook for testing functionalities

   hosts:  all

   gather_facts:  true

   become:  yes

   roles:

      - testingPlays

Here is the content of defaults/main.yml

pathToFiles:  "/data"

fileGlob:  '*.txt'

fileGlobExclude:  '*.lst.txt'

Here is the content of tasks/main.yml

---

 - name: find certain text files

   find:

     paths: "{{ pathToFiles }}"

     patterns: "{{ fileGlob }}"

     excludes:  "{{ fileGlobExclude }}"

     file_type: file

     follow:  yes

     hidden:  yes

     recurse:  yes

   register: textFiles

 - name: output textFiles

   debug:

     msg: "{{ textFiles }}"

   when: textFiles.matched > 0

 - name: output textFiles.files

   debug:

     msg: "{{ item.path }}"

   with_items:  "{{ textFiles.files }}"

   when: textFiles.matched > 0

Here is the problem.

When the text files exists, the playbook works just fine.

When the text files are not there, the task "output textFiles.files" does not say "skipping: [HOSTNAME]"

Help.

Regards,

j