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Sanders54
Sanders54

Reputation: 103

Double conditional - delete all folders older than 3 days but keep a minimum of 10

I have a bit of problem I can't seem overcome. I have a folder with a lot of folders that are generated. I want to delete all folders that are older than three days, but I want to keep a minimum of 10 folders.

I came up with this half-working code and I'd like some suggestions how to tackle this.

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    # find all files that are older than three
    - find:
        paths: "/Users/asteen/Downloads/sites/"
        age: "3d"
        file_type: directory
      register: dirsOlderThan3d

    # find all files that are in the directory
    - find:
        paths: "/Users/asteen/Downloads/sites/"
        file_type: directory
      register: allDirs

    # delete all files that are older than three days, but keep a minimum of 10 files
    - file:
        path: "{{ item.path }}" 
        state: absent
      with_items: "{{ dirsOlderThan3d.files }}"
      when: allDirs.files > 10 and not item[0].exists ... item[9].exists

Upvotes: 10

Views: 9194

Answers (2)

AlinN
AlinN

Reputation: 103

I've been previously using a cronjob with find and decided to move to AWX and after checking here and other articles, I've come up with the following. Tested and working as we speak. First task registers all files older than 3 days as being matched_files_dirs. Second task removes them. Does the job but is slower than just running cron on linux:

find /opt/system*/target_directories -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm {} \;



---
- name: Cleanup
  hosts: linux
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
  - name: Collect files
    shell: find /opt/system*/target_directories -type f -mtime +3
    register: matched_files_dirs
    
  - name: Remove files
    become_user: root
    file: 
        path: "{{ item }}" 
        state: absent
    with_items: "{{ matched_files_dirs.stdout_lines }}"

Upvotes: 0

zigarn
zigarn

Reputation: 11625

You just have to filter your list of files older than 3 days:

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: find all files that are older than three
      find:
        paths: "/Users/asteen/Downloads/sites/"
        age: "3d"
        file_type: directory
      register: dirsOlderThan3d
    - name: remove older than 3 days but first ten newest
      file:
        path: "{{ item.path }}" 
        state: absent
      with_items: "{{ (dirsOlderThan3d.files | sort(attribute='ctime'))[:-10] | list }}"

Upvotes: 14

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