{"id":2211,"date":"2017-11-14T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openmediavault.org\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2019-05-24T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T07:43:47","slug":"remove-files-with-glob-pattern-in-saltstack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openmediavault.org\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Remove files with glob pattern in Saltstack"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to remove files using a glob pattern the you can not use salt.states.file.absent<\/a> because it does not support file globbing. To workaround this you can simply use salt.modules.file.find<\/a>.<\/p>\n

remove_test_files:\n  module.run:\n    - name: file.find\n    - path: \"\/xxx\/yyy\/zzz\"\n    - kwargs:\n        iname: \"test*\"\n        delete: \"f\"\n<\/pre>\n
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If you want to remove files using a glob pattern the you can not use salt.states.file.absent because it does not support file globbing. To workaround this you can simply use salt.modules.file.find. remove_test_files: module.run: – name: file.find – path: “\/xxx\/yyy\/zzz” – kwargs: iname: “test*” delete: “f”  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t