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'.
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