You could shell out to collect the filenames if you still want to use the
Ansible objects to do the deletions (this code assumes your shell is bash):
- shell: ls {{app_home}}/server/deploy/*{token,opm,pf-sm}*.jar
register: jars_to_cleanup
ignore_errors: yes
- file: name={{item}} state=absent
with_items: jars_to_cleanup.stdout_lines
Not sure if that's better or worse than just shelling out for the rm
statement, but it's an option. Perhaps Ansible needs a glob-expansion
function/operator to handle such a case?
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:37 AM, James Carroll
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks. I kind of came to that same conclusion about shelling it out, but
> hoping I was missing something.
>
> James
>
>
> On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 4:33:19 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
>> Nope, the file module doesn't accept shell wildcards, it needs real
>> filenames.
>>
>> I'd shell out to rm in this case, though you won't be able to use the
>> "deletes=" keyword to the shell module to override the "changed value" so
>> it will register as a change every time.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:05 PM, James Carroll <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to clear a directory with certain file names based on a
>>> pattern and it doesn't seem to work:
>>>
>>> - name: Remove any extant jars
>>> file: name="{{app_home}}/server/deploy/{{item}}" state=absent
>>> with_items:
>>> - "*token*.jar"
>>> - "*opm*.jar"
>>> - "*pf-sm*.jar"
>>>
>>> This isn't working; the existing jars stay there even though Ansible
>>> reports "CHANGED" on all three.
>>>
>>> I need this since these jars have their versions in their names and I
>>> need to make sure that they are deleted prior to pushing the updated files.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
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