I need to identify a set of files in a directory and rename all those with a .repo extension. Is it possible to do it with native Ansible functions? If it's not possible I'll use a pure and hard shell command.
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As to this answer ansible does not support move / rename functionality:
If you're careful with fileglob you can workaround not using shell like this:
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- name: copy files to new names and remove old ones hosts: all become: yes tasks: - name: copy all .repo files in a spec. directory to new names copy: src: "{{ item }}" dst: whatever_you_want_me_to_be_{{ item }}.reponot with_fileglob: "/tmp/repofiles/*repo" - name: remove all .repo files in a spec. directory file: path: "{{ item }}" state: absent with_fileglob: "/tmp/repofiles/*repo"
