[find module][mail module] Report only file name list

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Hi all,

I’m trying combine find module and mail module to report to my email only the list of files I need that were finded in specific folder. I try many ways but always receive full output. Do anyone can help?

My tasks

  • name: check if tar files exists
    find:
    paths: “{{ bkPath }}”
    patterns: ‘*.tar’
    register: backup_existed

  • name: results output
    debug:
    msg: “{{ item.path }}”
    with_items: “{{ backup_existed.files }}”
    register: backup_output

  • name: Report through email
    mail:
    host: smtp.gmail.com
    port: 587
    username: my_gmail@gmail.com
    password: SecretPass
    to: Khang Tran my_working@email
    subject: Ansible-Backup-Report
    body: >
    Backup files list:

  • {{ backup_output }}
    charset: utf-8
    delegate_to: localhost

Actually Email report:

Backup files list: - {‘msg’: u’/20190625/AS/mcpAcct.2019_06_25.16_46_45.tar’, ‘_ansible_verbose_always’: True, ‘_ansible_ignore_errors’: True, ‘_ansible_item_label’: {u’uid’: 1003, u’woth’: False, u’mtime’: 1561456341.9453063, u’inode’: 596799269, u’isgid’: False, u’size’: 3205120, u’roth’: True, u’isuid’: False, u’isreg’: True, u’pw_name’: u’labbackup’, u’gid’: 1003, u’ischr’: False, u’wusr’: True, u’xoth’: False, u’rusr’: True, u’nlink’: 1, u’issock’: False, u’rgrp’: True, u’gr_name’: u’labbackup’, u’path’: u’/20190625/AS/mcpAcct.2019_06_25.16_46_45.tar’, u’xusr’: False, u’atime’: 1561456341.6703176, u’isdir’: False, u’ctime’: 1561456341.9453063, u’isblk’: False, u’xgrp’: False, u’dev’: 64770, u’wgrp’: True, u’isfifo’: False, u’mode’: u’0664’, u’islnk’: False}}, {‘changed’: False, ‘_ansible_no_log’: False, ‘item’: {u’uid’: 1003, u’woth’: False, u’mtime’: 1561456341.951306, u’inode’: 596799270, u’isgid’: False, u’size’: 40960, u’roth’: True, u’isuid’: False, u’isreg’: True, u’pw_name’: u’labbackup’, u’gid’: 1003, u’ischr’: False, u’wusr’: True, u’xoth’: False, u’rusr’: True, u’nlink’: 1, u’issock’: False, u’rgrp’: True, u’gr_name’: u’labbackup’, u’path’: u’/20190625/AS/mcpAcct.2019_06_25.16_51_33.tar’, u’xusr’: False, u’atime’: 1561456341.9463062, u’isdir’: False, u’ctime’: 1561456341.951306, u’wgrp’: True, u’xgrp’: False, u’dev’: 64770, u’isblk’: False, u’isfifo’: False, u’mode’: u’0664’, u’islnk’: False}, ‘_ansible_item_result’: True, ‘failed’: False }

Expected Email report contain:

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Skip the debug task, and use backup_existed in your mail task.
You do have to filter that down to a list of files, and then iterate
over that in jinja in the body parameter.

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Hi Visser,

I’m an ansible newbie, could you please help me in detail how to filter down and iterate in jinja in body parameter?

Regards,

Khang Tran

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Remove the debug task.
And use this in the mail task:

        body: >
          Backup list
          {% for file in backup_existed.files %}
          - {{ file.path }}
          {% endfor %}

You might need to tweak the newlines and formatting a bit.

Dick

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Thanks Visser a lots, it works exactly as expected.