SUMMARY

A fileglob may issue a warning Unable to find xxxx in expected paths when ansible_search_path is not defined, because it loops over the characters in the string instead of looping over a list of one element.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bugfix Pull Request

COMPONENT NAME

library/plugin/lookup

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.3.2.0
  config file = /home/eduardo/.ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
  python version = 2.7.13 (default, Mar  6 2017, 16:32:24) [GCC 5.4.0]

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Create a role with a task like this:

- local_action:
    module: debug
    msg: "{{ item }}"
  with_fileglob: "test/*.txt"

and some files

# mkdir -p files/test
# touch files/test/{a,b,c}.txt

Run ansible.