How to remove old file using Ansible

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Hi Guys,

I have copied some files to the remote systems using Ansible Playbook. Now I want to remove those files using Ansible. How can I do that?

Sep 17, 2020 in Ansible by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You can remove your files using Ansible. In Ansible you will find the file module which is used to handle the file-related task. To remove files you can see the below code.

- name: Remove old files foo
  file: 
    path: /path/to/foo 
    state: absent
answered Sep 17, 2020 by MD
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