Try SpotterCreates, touches or removes files or directories
Authors: Jon Hawkesworth (@jhawkesworth)
Install with ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.windows:==2.3.0
collections:
- name: ansible.windows
version: 2.3.0Creates (empty) files, updates file modification stamps of existing files, and can create or remove directories.
Unlike M(ansible.builtin.file), does not modify ownership, permissions or manipulate links.
For non-Windows targets, use the M(ansible.builtin.file) module instead.
- name: Touch a file (creates if not present, updates modification time if present)
ansible.windows.win_file:
path: C:\Temp\foo.conf
state: touch
- name: Remove a file, if present
ansible.windows.win_file:
path: C:\Temp\foo.conf
state: absent
- name: Create directory structure
ansible.windows.win_file:
path: C:\Temp\folder\subfolder
state: directory
- name: Remove directory structure
ansible.windows.win_file:
path: C:\Temp
state: absent
path:
aliases:
- dest
- name
description:
- Path to the file being managed.
required: true
type: path
state:
choices:
- absent
- directory
- file
- touch
description:
- If C(directory), all immediate subdirectories will be created if they do not exist.
- If C(file), the file will NOT be created if it does not exist, see the M(ansible.windows.win_copy)
or M(ansible.windows.win_template) module if you want that behavior.
- If C(absent), directories will be recursively deleted, and files will be removed.
- If C(touch), an empty file will be created if the C(path) does not exist, while
an existing file or directory will receive updated file access and modification
times (similar to the way C(touch) works from the command line).
type: str