Delete a directory in Go




A simple tutorial on how to delete a directory in Go. This tutorial is a respond to this solution which is not the recommended way.

removedir.go

 package main

 import (
 "os"
 )

 func main() {

 os.Remove("./TestDir")

 }

To remove all the subdirectories under the target directory, replace os.Remove() to os.RemoveAll()

Reference :

http://golang.org/pkg/os/#RemoveAll





By Adam Ng

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