A simple grep can help you recursively search for a substring in all the files of a directory. Here is an example of looking for multi-doc yaml files: # recursively search directory, looking for line ‘—‘ # regex: caret means line starts with, dollar sign mean line ends with grep -sr ‘^—$’ If you have … Bash: counting number of times substring is found in directory
If you have a simple directory containing multiple template files that should be generated on a target host, the ‘with_fileglob‘ lookup plugin provides an easy way to render them. Below is an example rendering all the files from the ‘templates’ directory of a role. – name: create file out of every file in template directory … Ansible: generating templates with deep directory structure using with_filetree
Finding the most recently modified files in a directory can be extremely beneficial when you have been making changes in files throughout the directory structure as part of a work effort, and now need to go back and pinpoint everything that was changed. This command will provide you the 10 most recently modified files, excluding … Bash: deep listing the most recently modified files in a directory