Possible to include wildcards in delete?

[newmanw]

Would be nice to be able to delete based on wildcards.

fs.remove('/tmp/something.*', function(err) { ...

[jprichardson]

Hmm, I agree... this could be handy. I can't make it a priority right now to implement, but I'll leave this open incase someone wants to do a PR. But the way to do it would be to take advantage of the options in rimraf (the module that fs-extra uses to delete) and set options.unlink to function and if the file matches the wildcard then use fs.unlink and if not, just skip deleting. Actually, after typing this out, it wouldn't be that difficult to implement.

[jprichardson]

Note to self, reference module to borrow techniques from: https://github.com/sindresorhus/del

[jprichardson]

This should actually be possible now that rimraf supports wildcards (fs-extra depends upon rimraf). Closing.

[pomber]

How do you use wildcards?
Looks like there is no way to set disableGlob to false in remove functions.

[jprichardson]

How do you use wildcards?

You can't. Your best bet is to use a file system walker like https://github.com/jprichardson/node-klaw and match using a filter, and then remove.

[pomber]

Shouldn't it be possible using just rimraf with disableGlob false?

[jprichardson]

Shouldn't it be possible using just rimraf with disableGlob false?

Sure, but IIRC, we have it hardcoded to false. So you'd then have to include rimraf if you want to do that.

[jwmann]

Are we still not able to use wildcards?
Why can't we pass { glob: true } to fs.remove() so rimraf can do the job?

[RyanZim]

We have a fork of rimraf that doesn't include globbing. Globbing just makes everything far more complicated, and we're not willing to take that on ATM.