Add documentation about patterns with commas to find module (#45360)

Thanks @samdoran  for the example and clarification!
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Sam Doran 2018-09-11 11:04:17 -04:00 committed by Sandra McCann
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@ -36,12 +36,17 @@ options:
- One or more (shell or regex) patterns, which type is controlled by C(use_regex) option.
- The patterns restrict the list of files to be returned to those whose basenames match at
least one of the patterns specified. Multiple patterns can be specified using a list.
- This parameter expects a list, which can be either comma separated or YAML. If any of the
patterns contain a comma, make sure to put them in a list to avoid splitting the patterns
in undesirable ways.
type: list
aliases: ['pattern']
excludes:
description:
- One or more (shell or regex) patterns, which type is controlled by C(use_regex) option.
- Items matching an C(excludes) pattern are culled from C(patterns) matches.
Multiple patterns can be specified using a list.
type: list
aliases: ['exclude']
version_added: "2.5"
contains:
@ -52,6 +57,7 @@ options:
aliases: [ name, path ]
description:
- List of paths of directories to search. All paths must be fully qualified.
type: list
file_type:
description:
- Type of file to select.
@ -147,6 +153,24 @@ EXAMPLES = r'''
recurse: no
file_type: directory
excludes: 'nginx,mysql'
# When using patterns that contain a comma, make sure they are formatted as lists to avoid splitting the pattern
- name: Use a single pattern that contains a comma formatted as a list
find:
paths: /var/log
file_type: file
use_regex: yes
patterns: ['^_[0-9]{2,4}_.*.log$']
- name: Use multiple patterns that contain a comma formatted as a YAML list
find:
paths: /var/log
file_type: file
use_regex: yes
patterns:
- '^_[0-9]{2,4}_.*.log$'
- '^[a-z]{1,5}_.*log$'
'''
RETURN = r'''