diff --git a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-platform/resources/pyxis/partial/_pyxis_common.rb b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-platform/resources/pyxis/partial/_pyxis_common.rb
index 91d5e4107..2312ffe5a 100644
--- a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-platform/resources/pyxis/partial/_pyxis_common.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-platform/resources/pyxis/partial/_pyxis_common.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     user 'root'
     code <<-PYXIS_INSTALL
     set -e
-    rm -r /tmp/pyxis/*
+    rm -r /tmp/pyxis
     git clone --depth 1 --branch #{package_version} https://github.com/NVIDIA/pyxis.git /tmp/pyxis
     cd /tmp/pyxis
     CPPFLAGS='-I /opt/slurm/include/' make