|                                                                                                     |  | [](https://travis-ci.org/isaacs/rimraf) [](https://david-dm.org/isaacs/rimraf) [](https://david-dm.org/isaacs/rimraf#info=devDependencies)
The [UNIX command](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rm_(Unix)) `rm -rf` for node.
Install with `npm install rimraf`, or just drop rimraf.js somewhere.
## API
`rimraf(f, [opts], callback)`
The first parameter will be interpreted as a globbing pattern for files. If youwant to disable globbing you can do so with `opts.disableGlob` (defaults to`false`). This might be handy, for instance, if you have filenames that containglobbing wildcard characters.
The callback will be called with an error if there is one.  Certainerrors are handled for you:
* Windows: `EBUSY` and `ENOTEMPTY` - rimraf will back off a maximum of  `opts.maxBusyTries` times before giving up, adding 100ms of wait  between each attempt.  The default `maxBusyTries` is 3.* `ENOENT` - If the file doesn't exist, rimraf will return  successfully, since your desired outcome is already the case.* `EMFILE` - Since `readdir` requires opening a file descriptor, it's  possible to hit `EMFILE` if too many file descriptors are in use.  In the sync case, there's nothing to be done for this.  But in the  async case, rimraf will gradually back off with timeouts up to  `opts.emfileWait` ms, which defaults to 1000.
## options
* unlink, chmod, stat, lstat, rmdir, readdir,  unlinkSync, chmodSync, statSync, lstatSync, rmdirSync, readdirSync
    In order to use a custom file system library, you can override    specific fs functions on the options object.
    If any of these functions are present on the options object, then    the supplied function will be used instead of the default fs    method.
    Sync methods are only relevant for `rimraf.sync()`, of course.
    For example:
    ```javascript    var myCustomFS = require('some-custom-fs')
    rimraf('some-thing', myCustomFS, callback)    ```
* maxBusyTries
    If an `EBUSY`, `ENOTEMPTY`, or `EPERM` error code is encountered    on Windows systems, then rimraf will retry with a linear backoff    wait of 100ms longer on each try.  The default maxBusyTries is 3.
    Only relevant for async usage.
* emfileWait
    If an `EMFILE` error is encountered, then rimraf will retry    repeatedly with a linear backoff of 1ms longer on each try, until    the timeout counter hits this max.  The default limit is 1000.
    If you repeatedly encounter `EMFILE` errors, then consider using    [graceful-fs](http://npm.im/graceful-fs) in your program.
    Only relevant for async usage.
* glob
    Set to `false` to disable [glob](http://npm.im/glob) pattern    matching.
    Set to an object to pass options to the glob module.  The default    glob options are `{ nosort: true, silent: true }`.
    Glob version 6 is used in this module.
    Relevant for both sync and async usage.
* disableGlob
    Set to any non-falsey value to disable globbing entirely.    (Equivalent to setting `glob: false`.)
## rimraf.sync
It can remove stuff synchronously, too.  But that's not so good.  Usethe async API.  It's better.
## CLI
If installed with `npm install rimraf -g` it can be used as a globalcommand `rimraf <path> [<path> ...]` which is useful for cross platform support.
## mkdirp
If you need to create a directory recursively, check out[mkdirp](https://github.com/substack/node-mkdirp).
 |