Maintenance Ruby 3.3 gets fixes, but no new features. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →
class method
File.delete
File.delete(file_name, ...) → integer
File.unlink(file_name, ...) → integer
file.c
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static VALUE
rb_file_s_unlink(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE klass)
{
return apply2files(unlink_internal, argc, argv, 0);
}
Deletes the named files, returning the number of names passed as arguments. Raises an exception on any error. Since the underlying implementation relies on the unlink(2) system call, the type of exception raised depends on its error type (see linux.die.net/man/2/unlink) and has the form of e.g. Errno::ENOENT.
See also Dir::rmdir.