community.general/test/integration/targets/find/tasks/main.yml

# Test code for the find module.
# (c) 2017, James Tanner <tanner.jc@gmail.com>

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- set_fact: output_dir_test={{output_dir}}/test_find

- name: make sure our testing sub-directory does not exist
  file: path="{{ output_dir_test }}" state=absent

- name: create our testing sub-directory
  file: path="{{ output_dir_test }}" state=directory

##
## find
##

- name: make some directories
  file:
      path: "{{ output_dir_test }}/{{ item }}"
      state: directory
  with_items:
      - a/b/c/d
      - e/f/g/h

- name: make some files
  copy:
      dest: "{{ output_dir_test }}/{{ item }}"
      content: 'data'
  with_items:
      - a/1.txt
      - a/b/2.jpg
      - a/b/c/3
      - a/b/c/d/4.xml
      - e/5.json
      - e/f/6.swp
      - e/f/g/7.img
      - e/f/g/h/8.ogg

- name: find the directories
  find:
      paths: "{{ output_dir_test }}"
      file_type: directory
      recurse: yes
  register: find_test0
- debug: var=find_test0
- name: validate directory results
  assert:
      that:
          - 'find_test0.changed is defined'
          - 'find_test0.examined is defined'
          - 'find_test0.files is defined'
          - 'find_test0.matched is defined'
          - 'find_test0.msg is defined'
          - 'find_test0.matched == 8'
          - 'find_test0.files | length == 8'

- name: find the xml and img files
  find:
      paths: "{{ output_dir_test }}"
      file_type: file
      patterns: "*.xml,*.img"
      recurse: yes
  register: find_test1
- debug: var=find_test1
- name: validate directory results
  assert:
      that:
          - 'find_test1.matched == 2'
          - 'find_test1.files | length == 2'