How to remove a directory?

[Swit Zerland]

Hello

I am writing a site.pp to automate some tasks performed on a Windows VM puppet agent and I would like to know how to remove recursively a directory.

Thanks by advance

S.

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am 06.04.2014 01:27, schrieb Swit Zerland:

I am writing a site.pp to automate some tasks performed on a Windows VM puppet agent and I would like to know how to remove recursively a directory.

Either use an exec, which includes an "onlyif" attribute to remove the tree with an OS command, or one file resource (with "ensure => absent") for each directory in the tree. The latter needs more wotk to set up, but has the advantage of being OS independent.

Finally, you could write a new "dirtree" module which provides a new resource for managing directory trees and make it available on Github ;)

HTH...

    Dirk

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[jcbollinger]

On Monday, April 7, 2014 12:32:45 AM UTC-5, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

Am 06.04.2014 01:27, schrieb Swit Zerland:

I am writing a site.pp to automate some tasks performed on a Windows VM puppet agent and I would like to know how to remove recursively a directory.

Either use an exec, which includes an "onlyif" attribute to remove the tree with an OS command, or one file resource (with "ensure => absent") for each directory in the tree. The latter needs more wotk to set up, but has the advantage of being OS independent.

Finally, you could write a new "dirtree" module which provides a new resource for managing directory trees and make it available on Github ;)

Or use a Tidy resource to recursively clean out the directory, and an ordinary File resource with ensure => 'absent' to remove the directory.  Or maybe it would work to use just one File resource with ensure => 'absent', recurse => 'true'.


John

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

On 04/07/2014 04:31 PM, jcbollinger wrote:
> Or maybe it would work to use just one File resource with ensure =>
> 'absent', recurse => 'true'.

I would expect this to be the case, and IIRC force => true will also be
necessary for non-empty directories (this may even lift the need to
recurse).

Cheers,
Felix

[Renan Vicente]

  file {'remove_directory':

   ensure  => absent,

   path    => '/your/directory',

   recurse => true,

   purge   => true,

   force   => true,