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#!/bin/bash

TMPFILE=`/usr/bin/env mktemp`
dd count=1 bs=10M if=/dev/urandom of=$TMPFILE > /dev/null 2>&1 && md5sum $TMPFILE | awk '{print $1 }'
rm -f $TMPFILE

BradGunnerSGT

# ls is an alias for get-childitem. get-childitem also take a -recurse and other
# useful params, used to include or exclude file types, etc...

ls file*.txt | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt (get-date).AddDays(-3)}

BradGunnerSGT

In order to minimize slip-ups, we have a different inventory file for 
each instance-environment pair, and each inventory uses a different 
group name as well.  Then there are group-vars files for each 
instance-environment pair that set a variable so the proper playbooks 
get run.

For example, here is how we have the project laid out:
  site.yml
  inventory/
    main-prod

BradGunnerSGT

#!/bin/bash

BASEDIR=`dirname $0`/..
SCRIPT=`basename $0 .sh`
cd $BASEDIR
CMD=lib/logstash/bin/logstash

if [ -f conf/$SCRIPT ]; then
  exec $CMD -f conf/$SCRIPT
fi