Does the find module stores the files by sorting based on modification time?

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Does the find module stores the files by sorting based on modification time?

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I have no idea, and the docs don't mention any sorting.
Even if the output was sorted I wouldn't rely on any sorting being
there in the future.
Instead, sort it yourself if you need that.
It will be more explicit and stable.
For example:

sorted_files: "{{ files|sort(attribute='mtime')

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please help me

I installed ansible on mac os and installed vagrant server. After installation, when I run ansible -i hosts testserver -m ping -vvvv, it does not respond with the following message. I have not been able to solve the cause for a month.

ansible_host=127.0.0.1 | UNREACHABLE! => {

“changed”: false,

“msg”: “Failed to connect to the host via ssh: OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 47: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug1: Control socket "/Users/gimjeonghyeon/.ansible/cp/edc683342f" does not exist\r\ndebug2: resolving "ansible_host=127.0.0.1" port 2222\r\nssh: Could not resolve hostname ansible_host=127.0.0.1: nodename nor servname provided, or not known”,

“unreachable”: true

2021년 6월 30일 수요일 오후 10시 42분 53초 UTC+9에 dick…@geant.org님이 작성:

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pls don't hijack existing/unrelated threads just because they're active...

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Thanks, i’m able to sort it now by modification time.
Getting below error, though its working fine when it is hardcoded. Could you advise if something wrong with this approach?

ansible 2.9.21.

  • hosts: localhost
    gather_facts: 0
    tasks:

  • find:
    paths: /tmp
    register: op

  • debug: msg=“{{(op.files|sort(attribute=“mtime”))[0].path}}”

  • debug: msg=“{{(op.files|sort(attribute=“mtime”))[item].path}}”
    with_sequence: start=1 end=“{{op.files|length-1}}”

TASK [debug] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
“msg”: “/tmp/comp2.yml”
}

TASK [debug] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“msg”: “The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘list object’ has no attribute ‘0’\n\nThe error appears to be in ‘/opt/ansible/find’: line 11, column 9, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n - debug: msg="{{(op.files|sort(attribute="mtime"))[0].path}}"\n - debug: msg="{{(op.files|sort(attribute="mtime"))[item].path}}"\n ^ here\nWe could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with\nmissing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they\nstart a value. For instance:\n\n with_items:\n - {{ foo }}\n\nShould be written as:\n\n with_items:\n - "{{ foo }}"\n”}

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I fixed it. Need to parse the items as int. so modified it to

  • debug: msg=“{{(op.files|sort(attribute=“mtime”))[item|int].path}}”
    with_sequence: start=0 end=“{{op.files|length-1}}”
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Be that as it may, I don't see the need to fiddle with indexes, type
casting and length logic.
Just iterating over the list will give the same result:

    - debug: msg="{{ item.path }}"
      loop: "{{ op.files|sort(attribute='mtime') }}"