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Ruby program to delete an empty directory using Dir::unlink(), Dir::delete() methods

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will remove the empty directories using Dir::unlink(), Dir::delete() methods. Then we will check given directories are removed or not using Dir::exists() method.

Program/Source Code

The source code to delete an empty directory using Dir::unlink(), Dir::delete() methods is given below. The given program is compiled and executed on Windows 10 Operating System successfully.

# Ruby program to delete an empty directory 
# using Dir::unlink(), Dir::delete() 
# methods

puts Dir::exists?("MyDir1");
puts Dir::exists?("MyDir2");

Dir::unlink("MyDir1");
Dir::delete("MyDir2");

puts Dir::exists?("MyDir1");
puts Dir::exists?("MyDir2");

Output

true
true
false
false

Explanation

In the above program, we removed the MyDir1, MyDir2 directories using Dir::unlink(), Dir::delete() methods. Then we checked given directories have been deleted or not using the Dir::exists() method. If directories have been deleted successfully then it will print "true" otherwise it will print "false".

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