ansible.builtin.stat – Retrieve file or file system status

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• See Also
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Retrieves facts for a file similar to the Linux/Unix ‘stat’ command.
• For Windows targets, use the ansible.windows.win_stat module instead.

Parameters

Notes

See Also

Examples

# Obtain the stats of /etc/foo.conf, and check that the file still belongs
# to 'root'. Fail otherwise.
- name: Get stats of a file
  ansible.builtin.stat:
    path: /etc/foo.conf
  register: st
- name: Fail if the file does not belong to 'root'
  ansible.builtin.fail:
    msg: "Whoops! file ownership has changed"
  when: st.stat.pw_name != 'root'

# Determine if a path exists and is a symlink. Note that if the path does
# not exist, and we test sym.stat.islnk, it will fail with an error. So
# therefore, we must test whether it is defined.
# Run this to understand the structure, the skipped ones do not pass the
# check performed by 'when'
- name: Get stats of the FS object
  ansible.builtin.stat:
    path: /path/to/something
  register: sym

- name: Print a debug message
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "islnk isn't defined (path doesn't exist)"
  when: sym.stat.islnk is not defined

- name: Print a debug message
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "islnk is defined (path must exist)"
  when: sym.stat.islnk is defined

- name: Print a debug message
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Path exists and is a symlink"
  when: sym.stat.islnk is defined and sym.stat.islnk

- name: Print a debug message
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Path exists and isn't a symlink"
  when: sym.stat.islnk is defined and sym.stat.islnk == False


# Determine if a path exists and is a directory.  Note that we need to test
# both that p.stat.isdir actually exists, and also that it's set to true.
- name: Get stats of the FS object
  ansible.builtin.stat:
    path: /path/to/something
  register: p
- name: Print a debug message
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Path exists and is a directory"
  when: p.stat.isdir is defined and p.stat.isdir

- name: Don not do checksum
  ansible.builtin.stat:
    path: /path/to/myhugefile
    get_checksum: no

- name: Use sha256 to calculate checksum
  ansible.builtin.stat:
    path: /path/to/something
    checksum_algorithm: sha256

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Authors

• Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker)