delete-directory

The below code only deletes the first file it gets inside the web dir. I want to remove all the files and folders inside the web directory and retain the web directory. How can I do that? - name: remove web dir contents file: path='/home/mydata/web/{{ item }}' state=absent with_fileglob: - /home/mydata/web/* Note: I've tried rm -rf using command and shell, but they don't work. Perhaps I am using them wrongly. Any help in the right direction will be appreciated. I am using ansible 2.1.0.0 Mohan Kumar P Below code will delete the entire contents of artifact_path - name: Clean artifact path file:

I know this will delete everything in a subdirectory and below it: rm -rf <subdir-name> But how do you delete everything in the current directory as well as every subdirectory below it and the contents of all of those subdirectories? tvanfosson Practice safe computing. Simply go up one level in the hierarchy and don't use a wildcard expression: cd ..; rm -rf -- <dir-to-remove> The two dashes -- tell rm that <dir-to-remove> is not a command-line option, even when it begins with a dash. Will delete all files/directories below the current one. find -mindepth 1 -delete If you want to do the same

I deleted manually a directory I just added, offline, in my repository. I can't restore the directory. Any attempt to do an update or a commit will fail with: "blabla/.svn" containing working copy admin area is missing. I understand why, but is there anyway to fix this. I don't want to checkout the entire repo and add my changes to it manually, it would take hours. According to this: http://www.devcha.com/2008/03/svn-directory-svn-containing-working.html Check-out the folder "blabla" to a different location and then copy its .svn folder back into the original "blabla". Matt Setter fwiw, I had

Is it possible to delete all the subfolders (with content) and files within a folder? For example: Backup November pic1.jpg pic2.jpg December January pic3.jpg example1.txt example2.txt example3.txt There is a root folder (Backup). This root folder contains 3 subfolders (with content) and 3 text files. How can I delete the whole content (3 subfolders and 3 files) of the Backup folder without deleting the root folder (Backup) itself? The Directory class has a Delete method that accepts a parameter that forces the deleting operation recursively on the folder passed ' Loop over the subdirectories

I would like to delete all folders except MYFOLDER found in a parent directory but I cant get it done? for %%i in ("C:\Parent") do if not "%%i"=="MYFOLDER" del /f /q "%%i could somebody please check the code? (I'm using *.bat) This should help you: for /d %%i in ("C:\Parent\*") do if /i not "%%~nxi"=="MYFOLDER" del /s /q "%%i" Or simply copy MYFOLDER to a temp folder, delete all files, and copy back MYFOLDER. Unless MYFOLDER is huge and takes time to copy, this should work just as good. mihai_mandis Dir all folders and check one by one if it is not MYFOLDER , if is not - delete it. Please

What is the simplest way to forcefully delete a directory and all its subdirectories in PowerShell? I am using PowerShell V2 in Windows 7. I have learned from several sources that the most obvious command, Remove-Item $targetDir -Recurse -Force , does not work correctly. This includes a statement in the PowerShell V2 online help (found using Get-Help Remove-Item -Examples ) that states: ...Because the Recurse parameter in this cmdlet is faulty, the command uses the Get-Childitem cmdlet to get the desired files, and it uses the pipeline operator to pass them to the Remove-Item cmdlet... I have