Register variable numerical comparisons

[Gonzalo Servat]

Hi All,

I've seen some examples of using the shell module with register, but I can't find any that allow a numerical comparison to be made on stdout. For example:

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: Get file count
      shell: ls /tmp | wc -l
      register: filecount
   
    - name: Show a debug message
      debug: msg="{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      when: filecount.stdout > 100

I am not trying to implement monitoring with Ansible :) It is a one-off operation and I'm trying to just print a message if the output from wc is > a number. I assume that because filecount.stdout is a string, the comparison fails, but how can I convert stdout to an integer?

- Gonzalo

[Kahlil Hodgson]

try using the 'int' filter, i.e.,

when: filecount.stdout|int > 100



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[Gonzalo Servat]

Ah, thanks Kahlil :)

- Gonzalo