node.js remove file

Question

How do I delete a file with node.js?

http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_rename_oldpath_newpath_callback

I don't see a remove command?

Answer 1

I think you want to use fs.unlink.

More info on fs can be found here.

Answer 2

You can call fs.unlink(path, callback) for Asynchronous unlink(2) or fs.unlinkSync(path) for Synchronous unlink(2).
Where path is file-path which you want to remove.

For example we want to remove discovery.docx file from c:/book directory. So my file-path is c:/book/discovery.docx. So code for removing that file will be,

var fs = require('fs'); var filePath = 'c:/book/discovery.docx';  fs.unlinkSync(filePath);