Defining states depending on existance of a file/directory

Question

How is it possible to get something like the following running:

{% if not exist(\'/tmp/dummy/\') then %}
dummy:
  file.touch:
    - name: /tmp/dummy/tmp.txt
         


        

Answer 1

You can use unless for this.

dummy:
  file.touch:
    - name: /tmp/dummy/tmp.txt
    - unless: test -d /tmp/dummy/