下面的代码适合我:

- name: Get directory listing
  become: yes
  find:
    paths: /applications/cache
    patterns: '*'
    hidden: yes
  register: directory_content_result

- name: Remove directory content
  become: yes
  file:
    path: "{{ item.path }}"
    state: absent
  with_items: "{{ directory_content_result.files }}"

尝试下面的命令，它应该可以工作

- shell: ls -1 /some/dir
  register: contents

- file: path=/some/dir/{{ item }} state=absent
  with_items: {{ contents.stdout_lines }}

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

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/

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
      }}

- name: Files to delete search
  find:
    paths: /home/mydata/web/
    file_type: any
  register: files_to_delete

- name: Deleting files to delete
  file:
    path: '{{ item.path }}'
    state: absent
  with_items: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"