Method: FileUtils.rm

Defined in:
lib/fileutils.rb

.rm(list, force: nil, noop: nil, verbose: nil) ⇒ Object

Removes entries at the paths in the given list (a single path or an array of paths) returns list, if it is an array, [list] otherwise.

Argument list or its elements should be interpretable as paths.

With no keyword arguments, removes files at the paths given in list:

FileUtils.touch(['src0.txt', 'src0.dat'])
FileUtils.rm(['src0.dat', 'src0.txt']) # => ["src0.dat", "src0.txt"]

Keyword arguments:

  • force: true - ignores raised exceptions of StandardError and its descendants.

  • noop: true - does not remove files; returns nil.

  • verbose: true - prints an equivalent command:

    FileUtils.rm(['src0.dat', 'src0.txt'], noop: true, verbose: true)

    Output:

    rm src0.dat src0.txt

Related: methods for deleting.

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# File 'lib/fileutils.rb', line 1217

def rm(list, force: nil, noop: nil, verbose: nil)
  list = fu_list(list)
  fu_output_message "rm#{force ? ' -f' : ''} #{list.join ' '}" if verbose
  return if noop

  list.each do |path|
    remove_file path, force
  end
end