ansible - delete unmanaged files from directory?

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Michael Krupp picture Michael Krupp · May 5, 2013 · Viewed 35.3k times · Source

I want to recursively copy over a directory and render all .j2 files in there as templates. For this I am currently using the following lines:

- template: >
            src=/src/conf.d/{{ item }}
            dest=/dest/conf.d/{{ item|replace('.j2','') }}
  with_lines: find /src/conf.d/ -type f -printf "%P\n"

Now I'm looking for a way to remove unmanaged files from this directory. For example if I remove a file/template from /src/conf.d/ I want Ansible to remove it from /dest/conf.d/ as well.

Is there some way to do this? I tried fiddling around with rsync --delete, but there I got a problem with the templates which get their suffix .j2 removed.

Answer

user2645850 picture user2645850 · Aug 2, 2013

I'd do it like this, assuming a variable defined as 'managed_files' up top that is a list.

- shell: ls -1 /some/dir
  register: contents

- file: path=/some/dir/{{ item }} state=absent
  with_items: contents.stdout_lines
  when: item not in managed_files

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