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Ruby program to remove a specified directory

Ruby Example: Write a program to remove a specified directory.
Submitted by Nidhi, on February 20, 2022

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will remove a specified directory using Dir.rmdir() method.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to remove a specified directory is given below. The given program is compiled and executed on Windows 10 Operating System successfully.

# Ruby program to remove 
# a specified directory

puts Dir.exists?("mydir"); 

Dir.rmdir("mydir"); 

puts Dir.exists?("mydir");

Output:

true
false

Explanation:

In the above program, we used Dir.rmdir() method to remove the specified directory. Here we checked directory exists or not using Dir.exists?() method and print returned value.

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