Looping for find results

[Michael Bushey]

On Ansible 2.3.1.0 this works:

      - name: Identify logs
        find: paths=/var/log/nginx patterns="*.log"
        ignore_errors: true
        register: files_to_delete

      - name: Remove debug file log
        file: path=/tmp/test.log state=absent

      - name: Log matched files
        shell: echo {{ item.path }} /tmp >> /tmp/test.log
        with_items: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"


It would be nice to be able to do a debug var or msg, but that seems to break the loop for some reason. Anyway I can dump the matched log files in /tmp/test.log on each server in /tmp/test.log.

I would like to extend the find:

      - name: Identify logs
        find: paths=/var/log/{{ item }} patterns="*.log"
        with_items:
          - nginx
          - apache
          - qmail
          - opensmtp
        ignore_errors: true
        register: files_to_delete


doing a debug: var=files_to_delete I see the following structure:
ok: [server] => {
    "files_to_delete": {
        "changed": false,
        "msg": "All items completed",
        "results": [
            {
                "_ansible_item_result": true,
                "_ansible_no_log": false,
                "_ansible_parsed": true,
                "changed": false,
                "examined": 4,
                "files": [
                    {
                        "atime": 1501710174.3968189,
                        "ctime": 1501710167.0451255,
                        "dev": 51713,
                        "gid": 0,
                        "inode": 1307247,
                        "isblk": false,
                        "ischr": false,
                        "isdir": false,
                        "isfifo": false,
                        "isgid": false,
                        "islnk": false,
                        "isreg": true,
                        "issock": false,
                        "isuid": false,
                        "mode": "0644",
                        "mtime": 1501710167.0451255,
                        "nlink": 1,
                        "path": "/var/logs/qmail/debug.log",
...


I tried many things such as:

      - name: Log matched files
        shell: echo {{ item.path }} /tmp >> /tmp/test.log
        with_subelements:
          - "{{ files_to_delete.results }}"
          - files

but I am not able to get this to work. I've found several blog posts on this but either this version of Ansible is broke in regards to this or the functionality has changed.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Michael