Delete files

Asynchronously delete files in node.

Install

Yarn

yarn add delete-files

NPM

npm install delete-files --save 

Usage

deleteFiles(<folder>, [options]);

Example

Remove all files/folders in /dir beginning with tmp that are older than a day (age is specified in seconds).

const deleteFiles = require('delete-files');

const options = {
  age: 86400,
  glob: '^tmp',
};

deleteFiles('/dir', options);

If a glob is specified and a file does not match, no further options will be checked and the file will not be removed.

Implementation

The path for the directory to search must be specified with the full path. The age of a file is determined from the mtime (last modified). Files and folders are removed with the fs-extra remove function which is the equivalent of rm -rf.