How to Delete Only Files Inside a Directory — Ansible module find

How to automate the search and delete of the files and directories inside a directory keeping the main folder with Ansible modules find and file.

How to Delete Only Files Inside a Directory with Ansible?

I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible How to Delete Only Files Inside a Directory

• `ansible.builtin.find`
• Return a list of files based on specific criteria

Today we’re talking about the Ansible module `find`.

The full name is `ansible.builtin.find`, which means that is part of the collection included in the `ansible-core` builtin collection.

This module returns a list of files based on specific criteria using the `find` popular Unix command.

Parameters

• paths string — List of paths of directories to search