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Delete/Remove a folder in Go (Golang)

Posted on February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 by admin

os.Remove() function can be used to delete a folder in Golang. Below is the signature of this function

func Remove(name string) error

Code:

package main

import (
    "log"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    err := os.Remove("sample")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}

Output:

Deletes sample folder from the current working directory
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