Need yesterday's date in a playbook

[kaleb....@gmail.com]

I have a need to run a playbook using yesterday's date as a variable in the playbook...

I had a thought to have two scheduled jobs..one to set a fact with the date the job is running, then use that on the next scheduled job, but I'm not entirely sure if that's the best way when really I just need to have a way to find yesterday's date in an ansible playbook.

[Patrick Dreher]

first off this Google Group is about discussing AWX/Tower - not Ansible.

having said that - how about using the shell module to run the date command and registering the output?

- name: Get timestamp from the system

    shell: "date --date='1 days ago'"

    register: tstamp

might need to change the command a bit to get the kind of date format you need. for wherever you'll use it.

[Kaleb S]

Thanks Patrick,

I apologize for hijacking the group, but appreciate the pointers.

Regards,

Kaleb

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