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win_stat - returns information about a Windows file

New in version 1.7.

Synopsis

Returns information about a Windows file

Options

parameter required default choices comments
get_checksum
(added in 2.1)
 no True
    Whether to return a checksum of the file (only sha1 currently supported)
    get_md5
    		 no True
      Whether to return the checksum sum of the file. As of Ansible 1.9 this is no longer a MD5, but a SHA1 instead.
      path
      		 yes
        The full path of the file/object to get the facts of; both forward and back slashes are accepted.

        Examples

        # Obtain information about a file

- win_stat: path=C:\foo.ini
  register: file_info

- debug: var=file_info

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