<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>removeDirectory -- remove a directory</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_symlink__Directory_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">next</a> | <a href="_copy__Directory_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="_symlink__Directory_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">forward</a> | <a href="_copy__Directory_lp__String_cm__String_rp.html">backward</a> | <a href="_file_spmanipulation.html">up</a> | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div><a href="index.html" title="">Macaulay2Doc</a> > <a href="___The_sp__Macaulay2_splanguage.html" title="">The Macaulay2 language</a> > <a href="_file_spmanipulation.html" title="Unix file manipulation functions">file manipulation</a> > <a href="_remove__Directory.html" title="remove a directory">removeDirectory</a></div> <hr/> <div><h1>removeDirectory -- remove a directory</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>removeDirectory dir</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>dir</tt>, <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span>, a filename or path to a directory</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Consequences:<ul><li>the directory is removed</li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : dir = temporaryFileName() o1 = /tmp/M2-10042-1</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : makeDirectory dir</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : readDirectory dir o3 = {., ..} o3 : List</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : removeDirectory dir</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_read__Directory.html" title="read the contents of a directory">readDirectory</a> -- read the contents of a directory</span></li> <li><span><a href="_make__Directory_lp__String_rp.html" title="make a directory">makeDirectory</a> -- make a directory</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>