Ansible Module stat

External

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/stat_module.html

Internal

• Ansible Concepts
• assert

Overview

Retrieves facts for a file similar to the Linux/Unix "stat" command.

- name: Gather stats on the given path
  stat:
    path: "{{ some_path }}"
  register: some_path_info
- name: debug
  debug:
    var: some_path_info

The module result variable has the following structure:

{
  "changed": false,
  "failed": false,
  "stat": {
    "atime": 1625423678.392114,
    "attr_flags": "",
    "attributes": [],
    "birthtime": 1625352249.6358514,
    "block_size": 4096,
    "blocks": 0,
    "charset": "binary",
    "ctime": 1625423644.281025,
    "dev": 16777220,
    "device_type": 0,
    "executable": true,
    "exists": true,
    "flags": 0,
    "generation": 0,
    "gid": 20,
    "gr_name": "staff",
    "inode": 30508999,
    "isblk": false,
    "ischr": false,
    "isdir": true,
    "isfifo": false,
    "isgid": false,
    "islnk": false,
    "isreg": false,
    "issock": false,
    "isuid": false,
    "mimetype": "inode/directory",
    "mode": "0755",
    "mtime": 1625423644.281025,
    "nlink": 24,
    "path": "/Users/ovidiu/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2021.2",
    "pw_name": "ovidiu",
    "readable": true,
    "rgrp": true,
    "roth": true,
    "rusr": true,
    "size": 768,
    "uid": 502,
    "version": null,
    "wgrp": false,
    "woth": false,
    "writeable": true,
    "wusr": true,
    "xgrp": true,
    "xoth": true,
    "xusr": true
  }
}

The existence of the directory can be checked with:

- name: Ensure that some directory exist
  assert:
    that: "{{ some_path_info.stat.exists }}"