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-(use-modules
- (ice-9 filesystem)
- (ice-9 pretty-print)
- (logging logger)
- (ordo)
- (ordo action filesystem))
-
-(playbook
- #:name "Basic filesystem operations"
- #:plays (list
-          (play
-           #:name "Temporary files on localhost"
-           #:host "localhost"
-           #:tasks (list
-                    (task #:name "Create temporary directory"
-                          #:action (lambda () (fs:create-tmp-dir (current-connection)))
-                          #:register-play-var #:tmp-dir)
-
-                    (task #:name "Create hello.txt"
-                          #:action (lambda () (fs:install-file (current-connection)
-                                                               (file-name-join* ($ #:tmp-dir) "hello.txt")
-                                                               #:content "Hello, world!"))
-                          #:register-play-var #:hello)
-
-                    (task #:name "Stat hello.txt"
-                          #:action (lambda () (fs:stat (current-connection) ($ #:hello)))
-                          #:register-play-var #:hello-stat)
-
-                    (task #:name "Debug variables"
-                          #:action (lambda ()
-                                     (pretty-print (list #:hello ($ #:hello) #:hello-stat ($ #:hello-stat)))))
-
-                    (task #:name "Clean up tmp dir"
-                          #:action (lambda () (fs:remove (current-connection) ($ #:tmp-dir) #:recurse? #t #:verbose? #t)))))))