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Check if a directory exists on Windows-like systems — Ansible module win_stat

How to automate the checking of the “example” directory/folder in the Desktop of the user on the Windows system and display a message or execute a task accordingly with Ansible Playbook.

Luca Berton
4 min readMar 15, 2022

How to check if a directory/folder exists on Windows-like systems with Ansible?

I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot

Ansible check directory exists on Windows-like systems

  • `ansible.windows.win_stat`
  • Get information about Windows files

Today we’re talking about the Ansible module `win_stat`.

The full name is `ansible.windows.win_stat`, which means that is part of the collection of modules specialized to interact with Windows target host.

It’s a module pretty stable and out for years.

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Luca Berton
Luca Berton

Written by Luca Berton

I help creative Automation DevOps, Cloud Engineer, System Administrator, and IT Professional to succeed with Ansible Technology to automate more things everyday

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