How to recursilvely chmod dirs and files (separately) with Ansible, without always seeing "changed" status.

tasks.yml

- name: ensure all dir permissions are set correctly
  shell: find /my/dir -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -c 2755
  register: chmod_result
  changed_when: "chmod_result.stdout != \"\""

- name: ensure all file permissions are set correctly
  shell: find /my/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -c 0650
  register: chmod_result
  changed_when: "chmod_result.stdout != \"\""

Thanks! Had never seen the -c flag before; looks like it's also supported by GNU chown and chgrp

Amazing! This helped me alot!