Re: [Puppet Users] tidy - remove all files matching a pattern, except the most recently modified file

2016-03-19 Thread Tony Gaetani
I agree. your command is much more concise and readable than what I originally came up with. Thanks. On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 3:47:14 PM UTC+1, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 6:32:02 AM UTC-5, Tony Gaetani wrote: >> >> The most-recentl

Re: [Puppet Users] tidy - remove all files matching a pattern, except the most recently modified file

2016-03-19 Thread Tony Gaetani
> Is the most-recently-modified file a resource managed by puppet? If so, > you can use tidy with recurse, and tidy will not clean up the managed file. > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Tony Gaetani > wrote: > >> I would like to have a tidy resource that del

[Puppet Users] tidy - remove all files matching a pattern, except the most recently modified file

2016-03-15 Thread Tony Gaetani
I would like to have a tidy resource that deletes all files recursively from directories matching a pattern, except for the most recently modified file. Something like this: tidy { 'clean up files except most recently modified one': path => '/path/to/files', recurse => true, rmd