excludes not work as expected with find module in ansible playbook

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I have created an ansible playbook which finds files older than 7 days and zips the files.

Also trying to exclude files from particular directory but not able to find.

I am not able to the exclude the files under sub directory ,it is also getting zipped
I am able to successfully exclude the already zipped files but not a sub directory under the path

using excludes in find module for compressing files older than 7 days

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I have created an ansible playbook which finds files older than 7 days and zips the files.
Also trying to exclude files from particular directory but not able to find.

I am not able to the exclude the files under sub directory ,it is also getting zipped
I am able to successfully exclude the already zipped files but not a sub directory under the path

using excludes in find module for compressing files older than 7 days

Please share your playbook.

Regards
         Racke

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Hi Racke,

Please find the below playbook details the username and path are test paths

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Hi Racke,

Please find the below playbook details the username and path are test paths

---
- name: Ansible archive Examples
hosts: all
tasks:

\- name : Find files ending with extensions
  become: true
  find:
   paths:
   \- /home/nsubbaraj/replicate/vol/gunnsc01/prod/scoreout
   recurse: yes
   file\_type: any
   excludes:
   \- '\*\.gz'
   \- /home/nsubbaraj/replicate/vol/gunnsc01/prod/scoreout/delete
   depth: 4
   age: 7d
   age\_stamp: mtime
  register: output

\- name: archive the files
  become: yes
  archive:
    remove: yes
    path: "\{\{ item\.path \}\}"
    dest: "\{\{ item\.path \}\}\-\{\{ansible\_date\_time\.date\.replace\('\-',''\)\}\}\.gz"
    format: zip
  with\_items: "\{\{ output\.files \}\}"

##############################

I am able to exclude the gzip files but not the delete directory files under
/home/nsubbaraj/replicate/vol/gunnsc01/prod/scoreout/

I think the values for "excludes" need to be relative to the path(s), so try "delete"
instead of "/home/nsubbaraj/replicate/vol/gunnsc01/prod/scoreout/delete".

Regards
        Racke

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Thanks ,I had tried already and tried again but no luck .

I tried with