fd

Ansible Role: fd

Role to download and install fd the user-friendly alternative to find.

Requirements

Ansible >= 2.9
Linux Distribution
- Debian Family
  - Debian
    - Stretch (9)
    - Buster (10)
    - Bullseye (11)
  - Ubuntu
    - Bionic (18.04)
    - Focal (20.04)
  - Note: other versions are likely to work but have not been tested.

Role Variables

The following variables will change the behavior of this role (default values are shown below):

# fd version number
fd_version: '8.7.0'

# The SHA256 of the fd redistributable package
fd_redis_sha256sum: 'ea3ef84bfd90c483125dfe4b50af86b405857389340159e401f63eec5cabaf80'

# Directory to store files downloaded for fd
fd_download_dir: "{{ x_ansible_download_dir | default(ansible_env.HOME + '/.ansible/tmp/downloads') }}"

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.fd

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Development & Testing

This project uses Molecule to aid in the development and testing; the role is unit tested using Testinfra and pytest.

To develop or test you'll need to have installed the following:

Linux (e.g. Ubuntu)
Docker
Python (including python-pip)
Ansible
Molecule

Because the above can be tricky to install, this project includes Molecule Wrapper. Molecule Wrapper is a shell script that installs Molecule and it's dependencies (apart from Linux) and then executes Molecule with the command you pass it.

To test this role using Molecule Wrapper run the following command from the project root: