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

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

How to Check if a file 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 file 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.