Setting facts from a loop

[lift...@gmail.com]

I have a playbook where I'm trying to use the find module to find files owned by a certain user.  I'm trying to do register a variable to hold the files found for each folder within the loop as follows:

  vars:

    folders:

    - folder: "/folder1"

      var: "temp_folder1"

    - folder: "folder2"

      var: "temp_folder2"

  tasks:

  - name: Find all files under {{ item.folder }}

    find:

      paths: "{{ item.folder }}"

      recurse: yes

    register: "{{ item.var }}"

    loop: "{{ folders }}"

I get a warning stating "register" is not templatable, then an error stating "Invalid variable name in 'register' specified: '{{ item.var }}"

Do I have to do this individually instead of via a loop?

Thanks,

Harry

[Matt Martz]

`register` must be static, you cannot template it.

See the following link for information about registering a variable with a loop:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_loops.html#registering-variables-with-a-loop

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[lift...@gmail.com]

OK, so if I had 10 folders I was looping through, and set the register variable to "tmp_folder" for example, how would I know then loop through that 1 variable to pull out the info I need?  The next step is to set a fact based on the returned files that match a certain user name.  Would the fact be something like this:

set_fact:

  temp_folder1_files: "{{ tmp_folder[0].files | selectattr('pw_name', 'equalto', remove_user) | list }}"

  temp_folder2_files: "{{ tmp_folder[1].files | selectattr('pw_name', 'equalto', remove_user) | list }}"

  temp_folder3_files: "{{ tmp_folder[2].files | selectattr('pw_name', 'equalto', remove_user) | list }}"

Thanks,

Harry