Change example syntax on stat module

pull/18777/head
Sam Doran 8 years ago committed by Matt Clay
parent d3e7d4f469
commit 065749ee2a

@ -77,9 +77,11 @@ author: "Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker)"
EXAMPLES = '''
# Obtain the stats of /etc/foo.conf, and check that the file still belongs
# to 'root'. Fail otherwise.
- stat: path=/etc/foo.conf
- stat:
path: /etc/foo.conf
register: st
- fail: msg="Whoops! file ownership has changed"
- 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
@ -87,30 +89,45 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
# 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'
- stat: path=/path/to/something
- stat:
path: /path/to/something
register: sym
- debug: msg="islnk isn't defined (path doesn't exist)"
- debug:
msg: "islnk isn't defined (path doesn't exist)"
when: sym.stat.islnk is not defined
- debug: msg="islnk is defined (path must exist)"
- debug:
msg: "islnk is defined (path must exist)"
when: sym.stat.islnk is defined
- debug: msg="Path exists and is a symlink"
- debug:
msg: "Path exists and is a symlink"
when: sym.stat.islnk is defined and sym.stat.islnk
- debug: msg="Path exists and isn't a symlink"
- 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.
- stat: path=/path/to/something
- stat:
path: /path/to/something
register: p
- debug: msg="Path exists and is a directory"
- debug:
msg: "Path exists and is a directory"
when: p.stat.isdir is defined and p.stat.isdir
# Don't do md5 checksum
- stat: path=/path/to/myhugefile get_md5=no
- stat:
path: /path/to/myhugefile
get_md5: no
# Use sha256 to calculate checksum
- stat: path=/path/to/something checksum_algorithm=sha256
- stat:
path: /path/to/something
checksum_algorithm: sha256
'''
RETURN = '''

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