从 Ansible Playbook 中删除服务器所有目录中的特定文件夹/文件

Question

I want to remove the all "test" folders inside the subdirectories of server. Like below is the path of "test" folders. There are multiple directories in home folder, So, I cant specify all the paths in playbook.

Path: /home/*/test

I have write the below playbook for this but it doesnt work.

tasks:
   - name: Delete the folder
     file:
       path: "{{ item }}"
       state: absent
     with_items:
       - "/home/*/test"

Could you please let me know the solution for it..

I have tried to use file_glob but doesn't work. I want to delete the test folders from all the subdirectories.

Answer 1

Use the module find . For example, given the tree

shell> tree /tmp/home/
/tmp/home/
├── a
├── b
│   └── test
└── c
    └── test

Declare the list of the paths

  test_dirs: "{{ out.files|map(attribute='path') }}"

Then, the task

    - find:
        paths: /tmp/home
        file_type: directory
        patterns: test
        recurse: true
      register: out

gives

  test_dirs:
  - /tmp/home/c/test
  - /tmp/home/b/test

Use the list to delete the directories

    - file:
        path: "{{ item }}"
        state: absent
      loop: "{{ test_dirs }}"

shell> tree /tmp/home/
/tmp/home/
├── a
├── b
└── c

---

Example of a complete playbook for testing

- hosts: localhost vars: test_dirs: "{{ out.files|map(attribute='path') }}" tasks: - find: paths: /tmp/home file_type: directory patterns: test recurse: true register: out - debug: var: test_dirs - file: path: "{{ item }}" state: absent loop: "{{ test_dirs }}"