Ansible task to determine if a path exists and is a symlink

Question

I'm very new to Ansible and I have to work on a project. I need to do the following

• Determine if a path exists and is a symlink
• If it does not exist, test sym.stat.islnk and should fail with an error

How do I write a playbook for the same?

Answer 1

Hi @neha, you can write your task in the following way:

- stat:
    path: /path/to/something
  register: sym

- debug:
    msg: "islnk isn't defined (path doesn't exist)"
  when: sym.stat.islnk is not defined

Try and let me know if it works.