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

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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?

paramiko sftp python
5 Answers

For @markolopa answer, you need 2 imports to get it working:

import posixpath
from stat import S_ISDIR
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I found a solution, using python3.7 e spur 0.3.20. It is very possible that works with others versions as well.

import spur

shell = spur.SshShell( hostname="ssh_host", username="ssh_usr", password="ssh_pwd")
ssh_session = shell._connect_ssh()

ssh_session.exec_command('rm -rf  /dir1/dir2/dir3')

ssh_session.close()
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