community.general.filetree – recursively match all files in a directory tree

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Examples

Synopsis

• This lookup enables you to template a complete tree of files on a target system while retaining permissions and ownership.
• Supports directories, files and symlinks, including SELinux and other file properties.
• If you provide more than one path, it will implement a first_found logic, and will not process entries it already processed in previous paths. This enables merging different trees in order of importance, or add role_vars to specific paths to influence different instances of the same role.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
_terms string / required			path(s) of files to read

Examples

- name: Create directories
  ansible.builtin.file:
    path: /web/{{ item.path }}
    state: directory
    mode: '{{ item.mode }}'
  with_community.general.filetree: web/
  when: item.state == 'directory'

- name: Template files (explicitly skip directories in order to use the 'src' attribute)
  ansible.builtin.template:
    src: '{{ item.src }}'
    dest: /web/{{ item.path }}
    mode: '{{ item.mode }}'
  with_community.general.filetree: web/
  when: item.state == 'file'

- name: Recreate symlinks
  ansible.builtin.file:
    src: '{{ item.src }}'
    dest: /web/{{ item.path }}
    state: link
    force: yes
    mode: '{{ item.mode }}'
  with_community.general.filetree: web/
  when: item.state == 'link'

- name: list all files under web/
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.filetree', 'web/') }}"

Authors

• Dag Wieers (@dagwieers) <dag@wieers.com>

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The errors were:

• Unable to normalize filetree: return due to: 9 validation errors for PluginReturnSchema
  return -> _raw -> contains -> group -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)
  return -> _raw -> contains -> owner -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)
  return -> _raw -> contains -> path -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)
  return -> _raw -> contains -> root -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)
  return -> _raw -> contains -> selevel -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)
  return -> _raw -> contains -> serole -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)
  return -> _raw -> contains -> setype -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)
  return -> _raw -> contains -> seuser -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)
  return -> _raw -> contains -> src -> type
    string does not match regex "^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$" (type=value_error.str.regex; pattern=^(bool|complex|dict|float|int|list|str)$)