Using ansible data management. I have use case to solve.

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Hi All,

I know ansible is for configuration management, provisioning, task automation. Ansible is already use to solve the purpose.

Background: I have shell scripts to read a filename from source and copying them to declared target location.

Ex: “xyz_date_123.txt” (script does the task of reading the date in the filename and creates target directory aswel, later places the file inside destination say: Project/YYYY/MM/DD directory)

I was wondering if we could do this using ansible, I have “functions”, “if”, “else” statements. Wasn’t sure if we could use ansible to solve this purpose.

Expert advice would be most appreciated.

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It's doable.

find module to find the file, .split [1] on the filename to get the date out and then some slicing of the result to get the year, month and day.
Then it's just using fetch and/or copy module depending where the file should be copied to.

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.split