running shall command with ansible - ansible

Question

i am new to Ansible, and have write .yml file to empty a file, just like ">file_name"
---
tasks:
- name: Empty Log Files greater then 400M
shell: 'find "{{ item }}" -name "messages*" -size +400M -exec sh -c '> {}' \;'
with_items:
- /var/log
- /var/opt
- /var/spool/mail
ignore_errors: yes
and i am getting this following error
ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
The error appears to have been in
'/tmp/clean.yml': line 7, column 11, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
name: Delete Log Files greater then 400M
shell: 'find "{{ item }}" -name "messages*" -size +400M -exec sh -c '> {}' \;'
^ here We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with missing quotes. Always quote template expression
brackets when they start a value. For instance:
with_items:
{{ foo }}
Should be written as:
with_items:
- "{{ foo }}"
exception type: exception: mapping
values are not allowed in this context in "", line
7, column 11
where im getting it wrong?

Answer 1

Kindly refer below playbook as a reference for the same.
---
- name: play to check the file size
hosts: "{{ servers }}"
tasks:
- name: Recursively find /tmp files older than 4 weeks and equal or greater than 1 megabyte
find:
paths: "{{ item }}"
age: 4w
size: 1m
recurse: yes
with_items:
- path_1
- path_2
- path_3