If you also want to check that the file in question is a regular file and not a folder, add the isreg value to the debug module condition:. Using Ansible to check if a directory exists is exactly the same as checking if a file exists. The only difference is that you use the isdir value to confirm the path to the specified directory:. There are times when you want to run or skip tasks in your playbook depending on whether certain files or folders exist. For instance, if you have a playbook designed to create a file on every remote host , you want to skip those hosts where the file already exists to avoid creating duplicates.
To do this, use the file details retrieved by the stat module with the when argument to create conditions for running tasks:. In the playbook above, the first task Checking if a file exists uses the stat module to retrieve the details of the test. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE.
Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Reducing the weight of our footer. Related 2. Hot Network Questions. I've tried with force: yes with everything else the same as above and that didn't work. A please confirm what version of ansible you are using ansible --version. B when you say "didn't work", can you describe what did not work means? How did you ascertain it did not work? Version is 1. I'm probably missing something basic here very new to ansible , but after running the playbook, I checked the directory on the host and the file hasn't been modified.
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Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Rather than downloading the file on each host I would like to download the file on the playbook host then copy it to each host for install to save bandwidth.
How do I make ansible check if the file exists in the playbook host and only download the tar if it doesn't exist? Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 4 years, 6 months ago.
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