Golang : Delete files by extension
Being able to select certain type of files to delete can be useful. In this follow up tutorial from Golang : Delete file, we are going to refine it further by only deleting files with certain extension with filepath.Ext()
function.
In our case, it will files with .png
extension.
Adapting the codes from earlier tutorial, we will add one additional if
statement into the code to only delete files with .png
extension.
The extra line is if filepath.Ext(file.Name()) == ".png"
deletefilebyextension.go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"path/filepath"
)
func main() {
dirname := "." + string(filepath.Separator)
d, err := os.Open(dirname)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
defer d.Close()
files, err := d.Readdir(-1)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
fmt.Println("Reading "+ dirname)
for _, file := range files {
if file.Mode().IsRegular() {
if filepath.Ext(file.Name()) == ".png" {
os.Remove("file.Name()")
fmt.Println("Deleted ", file.Name())
}
}
}
}
Put couple of .png
files into the same directory as this go program and try it out.
Reference :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20115327/golang-rename-the-directory-and-partial-file-renaming
See also : Golang : Delete file
By Adam Ng
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