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Ansible has the option to create backup files when something is changed. All of them have a suffix with the same structure.
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cleanup-ansible-backups.sh
# the regex is basically everything ending with: .arbitrarynumber.YYYY-MM-DD@hh:mm:ss~
sudo find / -regextype egrep -regex '.*.[0-9]*.[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}@[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}~' | xargs -n 1 rm
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