rmdir

  • We can remove a directory in PHP using the rmdir function. The directory must be empty and permissions must allow its removal.

    PHP

    rmdir('/path/to/dir_to_remove');

    Ruby’s Dir class provides two class methods, Dir.delete and Dir.rmdir, that are synonyms. Both are functionally equivalent to PHP’s rmdir.

    Ruby

    # identical
Dir.delete('/path/to/dir_to_remove')
Dir.rmdir('/path/to/dir_to_remove')

    One drawback of both PHP’s rmdir and the class methods provided by Ruby’s Dir class is that directory must be empty before it can be removed.

    You can remove a non-empty directory, in the same way as you would with rm -rf on the shell of a Unix-like system, by using FileUtils.rm_rf.

    Ruby

    require 'fileutils'
 
FileUtils.rm_rf('/path/to/dir_to_remove')

    see also

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