Is there any Alternative of command/shell module

[Rakesh Parida]

I prepared a playbook as follows:

---

- hosts: localhost

  vars:

    directory_name: /root/raka-tests/

  tasks:

  - name: List the Contents of dir

    command: ls -lrt {{ directory_name }}

    register: files

  - debug:

      msg: "{{ files.stdout_lines}}"

o/p:

TASK [debug] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************

ok: [localhost] => {

    "msg": [

        "total 80",

        "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  945 Jul 12 05:53 rel.yml",

        "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  280 Jul 12 06:19 playbook.yaml",

        "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  237 Jul 12 09:00 rakesh.yml",

        "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  179 Jul 15 05:40 playbook2.yml",

        "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  376 Jul 15 05:49 playbook3.yml",

        "-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  376 Jul 15 05:52 playbook4.yml",

I dont want to use command/shell  module. Is there any module which will show me the list sof contents of adirectory

[Dick Visser]

It's not clear what you are trying to do.
Depending on your use case you could either use fileglob:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup/fileglob.html
Or if you need to filter on specific permissions etc, use the find
module: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/find_module.html


Dick

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Dick Visser
Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager
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[P.Co...@bham.ac.uk]

Not really clear why command or shell doesn’t meet your needs but take a look at find, file or stat perhaps. See full list of modules below:

 

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_all_modules.html

 

Regards

Phil

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