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Create a directory on Windows-like systems — Ansible module win_file

How to automate the creation of “example” folder in the user Desktop on Windows-like hosts with Ansible Playbook.

Luca Berton
4 min readMar 14, 2022

How to create a directory in 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 create a directory

  • `ansible.windows.win_file`
  • Creates, touches, or removes files or directories

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

The full name is `ansible.windows.win_file`, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with windows machines.

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

It creates, touches, or removes files or directories.

For Linux targets, use the `ansible.builtin.file` module instead

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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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