DOCUMENTATION: name: path_join author: Anthony Bourguignon (@Toniob) version_added: "2.10" short_description: Join one or more path components positional: _input description: - Returns a path obtained by joining one or more path components. - If a path component is an absolute path, then all previous components are ignored and joining continues from the absolute path. See examples for details. options: _input: description: A path, or a list of paths. type: list elements: str required: true EXAMPLES: | # If path == 'foo/bar' and file == 'baz.txt', the result is '/etc/foo/bar/subdir/baz.txt' {{ ('/etc', path, 'subdir', file) | path_join }} # equivalent to '/etc/subdir/{{filename}}' wheremyfile: "{{ ['/etc', 'subdir', filename] | path_join }}" # trustme => '/etc/apt/trusted.d/mykey.gpg' trustme: "{{ ['/etc', 'apt', 'trusted.d', 'mykey.gpg'] | path_join }}" # If one of the paths is absolute, then path_join ignores all previous path components # If backup_dir == '/tmp' and backup_file == '/sample/baz.txt', the result is '/sample/baz.txt' # backup_path => "/sample/baz.txt" backup_path: "{{ ('/etc', backup_dir, backup_file) | path_join }}" RETURN: _value: description: The concatenated path. type: str