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user14116025

Reputation:

How to delete a file with an unknown extension using fs in NodeJS?

I want to delete a file named myfile with any extension.

const fs = require('fs')
const ext = '' ; //this extension may be anything
const path = './myfile.'+ext ;

fs.unlink(path, (err) => {
    if (err) {
        console.error(err)
        return
    }
    //file removed
})

The error I get:

no such file or directory named myfile

But there is a file named myfile.jpg which I want to delete. Let's pretend that we don't know the extension. How can I delete it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2021

Answers (1)

HW Siew
HW Siew

Reputation: 1003

unlink doesn't support regex to delete file. You will probably need to loop through the the folder and find the filename start with 'myfile' and delete it accordingly.

const fs = require('fs');
const director = 'path/to/directory/'

fs.readdir(directory, (err, files) => {
    files.forEach(file => {
        if(file.split('.')[0] == 'myfile') fs.unlink( directory + file );       
    });
});

Upvotes: 3

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