Have ansible manage the contents of a directory (including subdirectories)

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I am having difficulty figuring out how to have ansible manage the content of a directory, including subdirectories.

For example…

if I have the following

example_top_level_dir/
→ subdir1
→ subdir2

And I remove the subdir2 from Ansible…I want that reflected on the remote machine…Is there something similar to puppet’s “purge” where I can basically “sync” a reference directory in Ansible on a remote machine?

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Also should have included this in the initial post…I would prefer to not have to use the synchronize module as that requires rsync on both machines.