use fetch module with wild card or best way to grab different name file from several hosts

[Kent Younge]

Hello, 

I have created a log file using ansible an have named the log file with the host name.  I need to fetch that file from all my hosts and put it in a directory on the control server. However, it runs fine but does not copy the files over.  Here is my cmds. 

- name:  "Find needsreboot.log file" 

   find:

     paths: /dir/

     patterns: "*.needsreboot.log"  I have also tried $HOSTNAME-needsreboot.log

-name: 

 fetch: src: /dir/*.needsreboot.log

 dest: /dir on control server/logs

 flat: yes

thank you, 

[Brian Coca]

fetch does not support wildcards, register the data from find and use
that in loop in fetch

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Brian Coca

[Kent Younge]

So how would it look?

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[Brian Coca]

this explains it.
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_variables.html#registered-variables




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[Kent Younge]

I'm pretty new to Ansible and I am doing something wrong when I try it with variables.  All I get is errors now.  and I have not even gotten to the loop part yet.

- name: "check if files exsists"

  shell: /path/*-needsreboot.log

  register: log_result

  ignore_errors: True 

 shell:/path/

 when: log_result.rc == 5 

- name:  "Find needsreboot.log file" 

   find:

     paths: /dir/

     patterns: "*.needsreboot.log"  I have also tried $HOSTNAME-needsreboot.log

-name: 

 fetch: src: /dir/*.needsreboot.log  I have also tried $HOSTNAME-needsreboot.log

 dest: /dir on control server/logs

 flat: yes

Could some one please help with an example of this and loop.

[Kent Younge]

Changed to check the file exists

- name: Make sure file exists 

   file:

     path: /root/*-needsreboot.log

     state: touch

 still need an example for fetch and loop if that is needed or variable and loop.