abs¶

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Added in version 2.5.

Synopsis¶

Check if the provided path is absolute, not relative.
An absolute path expresses the location of a filesystem object starting at the filesystem root and requires no context.
A relative path does not start at the filesystem root and requires a 'current' directory as a context to resolve.

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input path		A path.

is_path_absolute: "{{ '/etc/hosts' is abs }}}"
relative_paths: "{{ all_paths | reject('abs') }}"

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	boolean	Returns V(True) if the path is absolute, V(False) if it is relative.