Ansible playbook file selection task

It's probably against best practice but using an Ansible playbook, is it possible to get a list of files from one task and then offer a user prompt to select one of the files to pass into a variable?

For example:

Choose file to select:
1. file1.txt
2. file2.txt
3. file3.txt
> 1

The playbook would theoretically pause for the user input and then pass the resulting file selection into a variable to use in a future task.

Many thanks in advance.

Solution

Use pause. For example, given the files

shell> tree files
files
├── file1.txt
├── file2.txt
└── file3.txt

0 directories, 3 files

Update

the playbook

shell> cat playbook.yml 
- hosts: localhost

  vars:

    dir: files
    my_files: "{{ q('fileglob', dir ~ '/*')|map('basename') }}"
    selected_file: "{{ dir }}/{{ my_files[result.user_input|int - 1] }}"

  tasks:

    - pause:
        prompt: |-
          Choose file to select:
          {% for file in my_files %}
          {{ loop.index }} {{ dir }}/{{ file }}
          {% endfor %}
      register: result

    - debug:
        var: selected_file

gives (when selecting the 2nd file and typing '2<ENTER')

shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml 

PLAY [localhost] ****

TASK [pause] ****
[pause]
Choose file to select:
1 files/file3.txt
2 files/file2.txt
3 files/file1.txt
:
2^Mok: [localhost]

TASK [debug] ****
ok: [localhost] => 
  selected_file: files/file2.txt

PLAY RECAP ****
localhost: ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

^{Origin
the playbook below
shell> cat playbook.yml
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- find:
path: files
register: result
- set_fact:
my_files: "{{ result.files|map(attribute='path')|list|sort }}"
- pause:
prompt: |
Choose file to select:
{% for file in my_files %}
{{ loop.index }} {{ file }}
{% endfor %}
register: result
- debug:
msg: "selected file: {{ my_files[result.user_input|int - 1] }}"

gives (when selecting the 2nd file and typing '2<ENTER')
shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml

PLAY [localhost] ****

TASK [find] ****
ok: [localhost]

TASK [set_fact] ****
ok: [localhost]

TASK [pause] ****
[pause]
Choose file to select:
1 files/file1.txt
2 files/file2.txt
3 files/file3.txt
:
ok: [localhost]

TASK [debug] ****
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "selected file: files/file2.txt"
}

PLAY RECAP ****
localhost: ok=4 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0}