Jira (PUP-9514) tidy: Allow removal of old directories, even if not empty

[Dirk Heinrichs (JIRA)]

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Dirk Heinrichs created an issue   Puppet / PUP-9514 tidy: Allow removal of old directories, even if not empty Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Components: Platform Created: 2019/03/06 1:02 AM Priority: Major Reporter: Dirk Heinrichs The tidy resource currently doesn't allow removal of non-empty directories. But sometimes this is exactly what is needed. For example we have a Windows application which doesn't cleanup after itself and leaves behind lots of directories with name "out-*" which I would like to remove after some days. Unfortunately, those directories are written to the root of drive D:, alongside other directories, which ought to be kept (but shouldn't need to be traversed). So the approach I'd like to use is: tidy { 'cleanup_d': path => 'D:/', matches => ['out-*'], age => '7d', recurse => 1, rmdirs => true, } but this apparently doesn't work because the directories aren't empty. Please add a "force" property to allow removal of non-empty directories. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.