Ansible date variable

Question

I\'m trying to learn how to use Ansible facts as variables, and I don\'t get it. When I run...

$ ansible localhost -m setup

...it lists all

Answer 1

The lookup module of ansible works fine for me. The yml is:

- hosts: test
  vars:
    time: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'date -d \"1 day ago\" +\"%Y%m%d\"') }}"

You can replace any command with date to get result of the command.