How to delete all files in directory on remote SFTP server in Python?

paramiko, python, sftp

Solution

I found a solution: Iterate over all the files in the remote location, then call `remove` on each of them:

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.load_host_keys(os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".ssh", "known_hosts")))
ssh.connect(server, username=username, pkey=mykey)
sftp = ssh.open_sftp()

# Updated code below:
filesInRemoteArtifacts = sftp.listdir(path=remoteArtifactPath)
for file in filesInRemoteArtifacts:
    sftp.remove(remoteArtifactPath+file)

# Close to end
sftp.close()
ssh.close()

Problem

I'd like to delete all the files in a given directory on a remote server that I'm already connected to using Paramiko. I cannot explicitly give the file names, though, because these will vary depending on which version of file I had previously put there. Here's what I'm trying to do... the line below the #TODO is the call I'm trying where `remoteArtifactPath` is something like `/opt/foo/*` ``` ssh = paramiko.SSHClient() ssh.load_host_keys(os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".ssh", "known_hosts"))) ssh.connect(server, username=username, pkey=mykey) sftp = ssh.open_sftp() # TODO: Need to somehow delete all files in remoteArtifactPath remotely sftp.remove(remoteArtifactPath+"*") # Close to end sftp.close() ssh.close() ``` Any idea how I can achieve this?

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