Ansible way to delete all files in a remote directory

[Asad Khan]

I know I can easily do:

shell: rm -f /etc/whatever/*

or possibly via a register variable on 

shell: ls -1 /etc/whatever/*

register: dircontents

I had assumed I would be able to do this in Ansible trivially without templating, but am not finding it straightforward

- with_glob enumerates "local" files only

- file: doesn't take wildcards as far as I know 

Is there something obvious I'm missing, or are the above the available implementation-patterns for this?

[Michael DeHaan]

Just call shell.

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[Luke Tislow]

Would the file module work with state=absent?

[Asad Khan]

The file module targets a specific file (unless used with with_items)

It can target a directory (recursively with recurse=yes in 1.1), but then the directory gets removed

[Mike Biglan]

Just tried this and it can't both use state=absent AND recurse=yes. Only way I could make this happen is drop down to "command".