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Node.js - delete files
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In this article, we would like to show you how to delete files in Node.js.
Below we will present 3 methods to delete files in node.js:
- synchronously,
- asynchronously with callback,
- asynchronously with async/await.
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const fs = require('fs');2
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try {4
fs.unlinkSync('./fileToDelete.txt');5
console.log('successfully deleted fileToDelete.txt');6
} catch (error) {7
console.log(error);8
}xxxxxxxxxx1
const fs = require('fs');2
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fs.unlink('./fileToDelete.txt', (error) => {4
if (error) {5
console.error(error.message);6
} else {7
console.log('successfully deleted');8
}9
});xxxxxxxxxx1
const fs = require('fs/promises');2
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const deleteFile = async (path) => {4
try {5
await fs.unlink(path);6
console.log('successfully deleted');7
} catch (error) {8
console.error(error.message);9
}10
};11
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deleteFile('./fileToDelete.txt');