Looping in ansible

If you have defined a YAML list in a variables file, or the ‘vars’ section, you can also do:

with_items: "{{ somelist }}"

Looping over file

---

 - hosts: ss

   tasks:

   - name: check the contents of a file and echo it

     debug: msg="{{item}}"

     with_file:

      - /home/bhr_moham607/test1.txt

      - /home/bhr_moham607/test2.txt

will loop and echo the message if only both the files are available. Also these files should be in master

Looping with Fileglob

with_fileglob matches all files in a single directory, non-recursively, that match a pattern. It calls Python’s glob library, and can be used like this:

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

    # first ensure our target directory exists

    - name: Ensure target directory exists

      file:

        dest: "/etc/fooapp"

        state: directory

    # copy each file over that matches the given pattern

    - name: Copy each file over that matches the given pattern

       copy:

        src: "{{ item }}"

        dest: "/etc/fooapp/"

        owner: "root"

        mode: 0600

        with_fileglob:

         - "/playbooks/files/fooapp/*"