使用文件glob也可以。你发布的代码有语法错误。我已经修改和测试这应该工作。

- name: remove web dir contents
  file:
    path: "{{ item }}"
    state: absent
  with_fileglob:
    - "/home/mydata/web/*"

假设您一直在Linux中，尝试查找cmd。

- name: Clean everything inside {{ item }}
  shell: test -d {{ item }} && find {{ item }} -path '{{ item }}/*' -prune -exec rm -rf {} \;
  with_items: [/home/mydata/web]

这将清除隐藏在/home/mydata/web下的文件/文件夹

这方面还有一个悬而未决的问题。

目前，解决方案对我来说是可行的:在本地创建一个空文件夹，并将其与远程文件夹同步。

以下是一个范例:

- name: "Empty directory"
  hosts: *
  tasks:
    - name: "Create an empty directory (locally)"
      local_action:
        module: file
        state: directory
        path: "/tmp/empty"

    - name: Empty remote directory
      synchronize:
        src: /tmp/empty/
        dest: /home/mydata/web/
        delete: yes
        recursive: yes

删除目录(基本上是https://stackoverflow.com/a/38201611/1695680的副本)，Ansible在底层使用rmtree执行此操作。

- name: remove files and directories
  file:
    state: "{{ item }}"
    path: "/srv/deleteme/"
    owner: 1000  # set your owner, group, and mode accordingly
    group: 1000
    mode: '0777'
  with_items:
    - absent
    - directory

如果您无法删除整个目录并重新创建它，您可以扫描其中的文件(和目录)，然后逐个删除它们。这需要一段时间。你可能想要确保在你的ansible.cfg on中有[ssh_connection]\npipelining = True。

- block:
  - name: 'collect files'
    find:
      paths: "/srv/deleteme/"
      hidden: True
      recurse: True
      # file_type: any  # Added in ansible 2.3
    register: collected_files

  - name: 'collect directories'
    find:
      paths: "/srv/deleteme/"
      hidden: True
      recurse: True
      file_type: directory
    register: collected_directories

  - name: remove collected files and directories
    file:
      path: "{{ item.path }}"
      state: absent
    with_items: >
      {{
        collected_files.files
        + collected_directories.files
      }}

我真的不喜欢rm解决方案，也ansible给你关于使用rm的警告。 因此，这里是如何做到这一点，而不需要rm和ansible警告。

- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: Ansible delete file glob
    find:
      paths: /etc/Ansible
      patterns: "*.txt"
    register: files_to_delete

  - name: Ansible remove file glob
    file:
      path: "{{ item.path }}"
      state: absent
    with_items: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"

来源:http://www.mydailytutorials.com/ansible-delete-multiple-files-directories-ansible/

根据所有的评论和建议创建了一个全面的重新检查和故障安全实现:

# collect stats about the dir
- name: check directory exists
  stat:
    path: '{{ directory_path }}'
  register: dir_to_delete

# delete directory if condition is true
- name: purge {{directory_path}}
  file:
    state: absent
    path: '{{ directory_path  }}'
  when: dir_to_delete.stat.exists and dir_to_delete.stat.isdir

# create directory if deleted (or if it didn't exist at all)
- name: create directory again
  file:
    state: directory
    path: '{{ directory_path }}'
  when: dir_to_delete is defined or dir_to_delete.stat.exist == False