How to clear the kudu files like wwwroot folder etc

Question

I'm trying to clear the files in kudu portal before each deployment

Answer 1

in addition to @Divyesh Govaerdhanan 's answer,

if you are deploying this from a pipeline, you can have this option checked if it is unchecked in azure pipeline "app service deploy" task
Remove additional files at destination

You can use this task in yml pipeline. kindly reference for more information https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/reference/azure-rm-web-app-deployment-v4?view=azure-pipelines

- task: AzureRmWebAppDeployment@4
  inputs:
    ConnectionType: 'AzureRM'
    azureSubscription: 'your-subscription'
    appType: 'webApp'
    WebAppName: 'your-app-name'
    packageForLinux: '$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/**/*.zip'
    RemoveAdditionalFilesFlag: true    # This is the key setting

Answer 2

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, thank you for asking your question.

-If you wish to manually ‘delete’ all the files from the intended folder, you may simply use the UX “Delete” button on the App Service Kudu console. (screenshots below)

-Or as you would typically delete folder content on-prem (doc) via CMD or PowerShell, clear the content of the intended older (including subfolder, subfiles, except the Folder itself).

Important: The delete operation would be irreversible once it is performed.

Copy

CMD/Bash  
del / PATH_TO_FOLDER\*.*  
for /d %i in (PATH_TO_FOLDER\*.*) do @rmdir /s "%i"  

-> /S : Delete all files and subfolders in addition to the folder itself.

-> /Q : Quiet - do not display Y/N confirmation

Example: del /q Test* for /d %x in (Test*) do @rd /s /q "%x"

-Reference: discussion

====via cmdlet====

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