delete

Deletes a file. If the @file is a directory, it will only be deleted if it is empty. This has the same semantics as g_unlink().

If @file doesn’t exist, %G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND will be returned. This allows for deletion to be implemented avoiding time-of-check to time-of-use races: | g_autoptr(GError) local_error = NULL; if (!g_file_delete (my_file, my_cancellable, &local_error) && !g_error_matches (local_error, G_IO_ERROR, G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND)) { // deletion failed for some reason other than the file not existing: // so report the error g_warning ("Failed to delete %s: %s", g_file_peek_path (my_file), local_error->message); } |

If @cancellable is not null, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error %G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

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