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class method

FileUtils.remove

(::FileUtils::pathlist list, ?force: ::boolish, ?noop: ::boolish, ?verbose: ::boolish) -> void

remove(list, force: nil, noop: nil, verbose: nil)

# File tmp/rubies/ruby-4.1.0-preview1/lib/fileutils.rb, line 1242
def rm(list, force: nil, noop: nil, verbose: nil)
  list = fu_list(list)
  fu_output_message "rm#{force ? ' -f' : ''} #{list.join ' '}" if verbose
  return if noop

  list.each do |path|
    remove_file path, force
  end
end

Alias of .rm

Removes entries at the paths in the given list (a single path or an array of paths) returns list, if it is an array, [list] otherwise.

Argument list or its elements should be interpretable as paths.

With no keyword arguments, removes files at the paths given in list:

Example

FileUtils.touch(['src0.txt', 'src0.dat'])
FileUtils.rm(['src0.dat', 'src0.txt']) # => ["src0.dat", "src0.txt"]

Keyword arguments:

force: true - ignores raised exceptions of StandardError and its descendants.
noop: true - does not remove files; returns nil.
verbose: true - prints an equivalent command:

Example
```
FileUtils.rm(['src0.dat', 'src0.txt'], noop: true, verbose: true)
```
Output:

Example
```
rm src0.dat src0.txt
```

Related: methods for deleting.

See also .rm #remove .pwd .remove_dir also in 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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