删除目录(基本上是https://stackoverflow.com/a/38201611/1695680的副本)，Ansible在底层使用rmtree执行此操作。

- name: remove files and directories
  file:
    state: "{{ item }}"
    path: "/srv/deleteme/"
    owner: 1000  # set your owner, group, and mode accordingly
    group: 1000
    mode: '0777'
  with_items:
    - absent
    - directory

如果您无法删除整个目录并重新创建它，您可以扫描其中的文件(和目录)，然后逐个删除它们。这需要一段时间。你可能想要确保在你的ansible.cfg on中有[ssh_connection]\npipelining = True。

- block:
  - name: 'collect files'
    find:
      paths: "/srv/deleteme/"
      hidden: True
      recurse: True
      # file_type: any  # Added in ansible 2.3
    register: collected_files

  - name: 'collect directories'
    find:
      paths: "/srv/deleteme/"
      hidden: True
      recurse: True
      file_type: directory
    register: collected_directories

  - name: remove collected files and directories
    file:
      path: "{{ item.path }}"
      state: absent
    with_items: >
      {{
        collected_files.files
        + collected_directories.files
      }}

下面的代码适合我:

- name: Get directory listing
  become: yes
  find:
    paths: /applications/cache
    patterns: '*'
    hidden: yes
  register: directory_content_result

- name: Remove directory content
  become: yes
  file:
    path: "{{ item.path }}"
    state: absent
  with_items: "{{ directory_content_result.files }}"

- name: Files to delete search
  find:
    paths: /home/mydata/web/
    file_type: any
  register: files_to_delete

- name: Deleting files to delete
  file:
    path: '{{ item.path }}'
    state: absent
  with_items: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"

我喜欢下面的解决方案:

- name: remove web dir contents
  command:
    cmd: "find . -path '*/*' -delete -print"
    chdir: "/home/mydata/web/"
  register: web_files_list
  changed_when: web_files_list.stdout | length > 0

因为它是:

简单的 幂等 快

我希望确保find命令只删除目录内的所有内容，并保持目录完整，因为在我的示例中，目录是一个文件系统。当尝试删除文件系统时，系统将生成一个错误，但这不是一个好的选择。我使用壳选项，因为这是唯一的工作选项，我发现这个问题到目前为止。

我做了什么:

编辑hosts文件，放入一些变量:

[all:vars]
COGNOS_HOME=/tmp/cognos
find=/bin/find

并创建一个剧本:

- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: Ansible remove files
    shell: "{{ find }} {{ COGNOS_HOME }} -xdev -mindepth 1 -delete"

这将删除COGNOS_HOME变量目录/文件系统中的所有文件和目录。"-mindepth 1"选项确保不会触及当前目录。

根据所有的评论和建议创建了一个全面的重新检查和故障安全实现:

# collect stats about the dir
- name: check directory exists
  stat:
    path: '{{ directory_path }}'
  register: dir_to_delete

# delete directory if condition is true
- name: purge {{directory_path}}
  file:
    state: absent
    path: '{{ directory_path  }}'
  when: dir_to_delete.stat.exists and dir_to_delete.stat.isdir

# create directory if deleted (or if it didn't exist at all)
- name: create directory again
  file:
    state: directory
    path: '{{ directory_path }}'
  when: dir_to_delete is defined or dir_to_delete.stat.exist == False