Deleting files in Linux may seem like a trivial task — until you face a directory with tens of thousands of files. In these cases, the usual commands can become painfully slow, throw errors like Argument list too long, or leave you with half-deleted directories. In this guide, we’ll cover the most efficient ways to […]| System Administration
A simple grep can help you recursively search for a substring in all the files of a directory. Here is an example of looking for multi-doc yaml files: # recursively search directory, looking for line '---' # regex: caret means line starts with, dollar sign mean line ends with grep -sr '^---$' If you have ... Bash: counting number of times substring is found in directory| fabianlee.org
If you have a simple directory containing multiple template files that should be generated on a target host, the ‘with_fileglob‘ lookup plugin provides an easy way to render them. Below is an example rendering all the files from the ‘templates’ directory of a role. - name: create file out of every file in template directory ... Ansible: generating templates with deep directory structure using with_filetree| fabianlee.org