Copy local file if exists, using ansible
I'm working in a project, and we use ansible to create a deploy a cluster of servers. One of the tasks that I've to implement, is to copy a local file to the remote host, only if that file exists locally. Now I'm trying to solve this problem using this
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
connection: local
tasks:
- name: copy local filetocopy.zip to remote if exists
- shell: if [[ -f "../filetocopy.zip" ]]; then /bin/true; else /bin/false; fi;
register: result
- copy: src=../filetocopy.zip dest=/tmp/filetocopy.zip
when: result|success
Bu this is failing with the following message: ERROR: 'action' or 'local_action' attribute missing in task "copy local filetocopy.zip to remote if exists"
I've tried to create this if with command task. I've already tried to create this task with a local_action, but I couldn't make it work. All samples that I've found, doesn't consider a shell into local_action, there are only samples of command, and neither of them have anything else then a command. Is there a way to do this task using ansible?
Answer
A more comprehensive answer:
If you want to check the existence of a local file before performing some task, here is the comprehensive snippet:
- name: get file stat to be able to perform a check in the following task
local_action: stat path=/path/to/file
register: file
- name: copy file if it exists
copy: src=/path/to/file dest=/destination/path
when: file.stat.exists
If you want to check the existence of a remote file before performing some task, this is the way to go:
- name: get file stat to be able to perform check in the following task
stat: path=/path/to/file
register: file
- name: copy file if it exists
copy: src=/path/to/file dest=/destination/path
when: file.stat.exists