How to purge directory with puppet and keep the dot files -

is there way purge folder , keep dotfiles? i'd purge /root.

something like:

file { '/root':   ensure => present,   owner => 'root',   group => 'root',   mode => 0550,   purge => true,   recurse => true, }  file { '/root/.*':   ensure => present,   owner => 'root',   group => 'root', } 

either go ignore param h2ooooooo correctly stated.

you may find cleaner not recurse , use tidy type , matches parameter instead.

tidy { "/root": recurse => 1, matches => '[a-za-z0-9_]*' }