How to do force remove in Python like rm -rf on Linux? [duplicate]

Question

I want to remove some log files of my App server without shutting down my server. What command can I use to do this using Python, like rm -rf in Linux systems?

Please help.

Answer 1

shutil is your friend in this instance.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/shutil.html#shutil.rmtree

import shutil
shutil.rmtree("/my/path/to/folder/to/destroy")