

In Linux everything is a file. So modifying files is all you really need. The hardest part is how to handle mobile endpoints like laptops, that don’t have always on connections. Ansible pull mode is what we were looking at in a POC, with triggers on VPN connection. Note we have a large Linux server footprint already managed by ansible, so it isn’t a large lift for us.
A method not yet mentioned is by inode, (I’ve accidentally created filenames I didn’t know how to escape at the time like
--
or other command line flags/special characters)ls -li
Once you get the inode
find . -type f -inum $inode -delete