The `rmdir` command is a Linux, DOS and Windows command used to remove a directory or folder.
The rmdir command is a Linux and Windows command used to remove a directory or folder.
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Error: ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rmdir when I use fs.rmSync on a folder with nested folders
I have a react + node website in which I have the following route to delete a folder called cache and remake it. Basically it should "clear cache".
const deleteCache = async (req, res) => {
fs.rmSync('./cache', {recursive: true, force : true},…
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Delete a specific folder with a path as a parameter in python
I want to delete a Folder named "testfolder" and all the subfolders and files in it. I want to give the "testfolder" path as a parameter when calling the python file. For example ...... (testfolder location) and there it should delete the…
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How to remove a project directory that "cargo new" created
I, by mistake, have created a new project directory with cargo new communicator --bin, instead of cargo new communicator --lib.
Then, I tried to remove the entire directory with rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty communicator. This command doesn't…
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Batch script to delete all folders except of "Starts with"
I have a folder with several subfolders. Structure is like:
C:\foo
C:\foo\web.foo
C:\foo\web.bar
C:\foo\win.foo
C:\foo\win.bar
C:\foo\mobile.foo
C:\foo\mobile.bar
I sometimes wish to delete the folders with its containing files with following…
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How to remove a directory and its empty ancestors with Perl?
What is the Perl way of removing a directory and then all empty parent directories up to the first non-empty one? In other words, what could one use instead of:
system 'rmdir', '-p', $directory;
which, in starting with d, would first remove d and…
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Using 'move' command instead of 'xcopy' in a loop
This line of code fines all folders in a directory that have a certain bit of text in common and copies all the contents of those folders to a new destination.
dir /b /s /a:d "\\SERVER\Path\Directory\*FolderTag" | for /f "delims=\; tokens=3,4,5*"…
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Deleting Windows Temp Files using python script
Can you help me how can i delete all the files under the Windows/Temp files??
Below are my scripts but it doesn't work at all.
import os
import subprocess
recPath = 'C:\\Windows\\Temp'
ls = []
if os.path.exists(recPath):
for i in…
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PHP Multi Directory delete
So I'm creating an image upload site and I need to delete multiple directories and files simultaneously. I have managed to create code that does the job however I'm unsure whether this is 'good code' as I'm repeating myself.
Is there a better way to…
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Windows: Deleting folder common in multiple sub-folders
Is there a way to do this? I have a folder structure as such:
A/
Folder/
B/
Folder/
C/
Folder/
D/
Folder/
And I want to delete all of the "Folder/"s, along with all of their contents. My first guess was
rmdir /S /Q *\Folder
but…
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PHP recursively delete empty parent directories
Problem Background
I have a multimedia web applications where users can save and delete files. The saved files are used for various application wide functionalities.
When files are saved, they are put deep inside directory tree (usually 6 to 9…
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Remove directory from server that contains backslashes (PHP)
On my way to learning the mkdir(); function in PHP, I have created a folder on my server with a path like so
files/New\\\\
Now, I can not delete this for the life of me...
I found one other post that said I would need to use
rmdir();
and escape…
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delete all the folders inside a parent folder
How to delete all the folders inside a parent folder with PHP?
I have tried this, but it isn't working:
function rrmdir($dir) {
if (is_dir($dir)) {
$objects = scandir($dir);
foreach ($objects as $object) {
if ($object != "." &&…
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bat file to delete containing folder when double clicked?
What I would like to do in my batch file is delete ALL the contents of the containing directory AND the directory itself. Currently I am using the following command:
rmdir ..\dir /S /Q & exit
This works in that it deletes ALL of the contents in…
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Mocha doesn't call rmdir in after() function
I try to create some tree of directories before tests and remove it after all:
require('should');
var fs = require('fs');
var rmdir = require('rmdir');
describe('FsWatcher', function() {
before(function(done) {
console.log("before");
…
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