How to remove all files from directory without removing directory in Node js

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How to remove all files from a directory without removing a directory itself using Node js  I want to remove temporary files  I am not any good with filesystems yet   I have found this method  which will remove files and the directory  In that  something like  path to directory   won t work   I don t really know what commands should use  Thanks for the help

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Yes  there is a module fs-extra  There is a method  emptyDir   inside this module which does the job  Here is an example   const fsExtra   require  fs-extra    fsExtra emptyDirSync fileDir    There is also an asynchronous version of this module too  Anyone can check out the link

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graph-fs  Install npm i graph-fs   Use const  Node    require  quot graph-fs quot    const directory   new Node  quot  path to directory quot     directory clear        lt --

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How about run a command line  require  child process   execSync  rm -rf  path to directory

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To remove all files from a directory  first you need to list all files in the directory using fs readdir  then you can use fs unlink to remove each file  Also fs readdir will give just the file names  you need to concat with the directory name to get the full path  Here is an example const fs   require  fs    const path   require  path     const directory    test    fs readdir directory   err  files    gt      if  err  throw err     for  const file of files        fs unlink path join directory  file   err   gt          if  err  throw err                   Update node version 14 There is a recursive flag that you can use in rmdir to remove all the files recursively  See nodejs docs for more information  const fs   require  fs   promises   const directory    test    fs rmdir directory    recursive  true       then      gt  console log  directory removed

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There is package called rimraf that is very handy  It is the UNIX command rm -rf for node   Nevertheless  it can be too powerful too because you can delete folders very easily using it  The following commands will delete the files inside the folder  If you remove the    you will remove the log folder   const rimraf   require  rimraf    rimraf    log     function      console log  done          https   www npmjs com package rimraf

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Building on  Waterscroll s response  if you want to use async and await in node 8    const fs   require  fs    const util   require  util    const readdir   util promisify fs readdir   const unlink   util promisify fs unlink   const directory    test    async function toRun       try       const files   await readdir directory       const unlinkPromises   files map filename   gt  unlink    directory    filename          return Promise all unlinkPromises       catch err        console log err          toRun

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