isaacs/rimraf

Features

• File Deletions - Provides a command-line interface for executing recursive file and folder deletions with interactive confirmation.
• Programmatic File Operations - Provides a programmatic API for managing disk space and directory structures within Node.js applications.
• Cross-Platform Path Manipulation - Provides utilities to normalize file path separators and formats for consistent deletion across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• File Pattern Matching - Identifies target files for deletion using wildcard and recursive glob patterns.
• Glob Pattern Selectors - Supports removing files and directories that match specific glob patterns instead of literal paths.
• Cross-Platform File Operations - Provides consistent recursive directory removal and file operations across different operating systems.
• Recursive Deletion - Implements recursive removal of folders and all their contained contents across different operating systems.
• Asynchronous File I/O - Implements non-blocking filesystem operations using Node.js asynchronous APIs to prevent event loop stalls.
• Recursive Directory Traversers - Performs depth-first traversal of directory trees to ensure child items are removed before their parent folders.
• Filesystem Path Filtering - Allows using custom boolean functions to selectively exclude specific files or folders from being deleted.
• Build Artifact Cleaners - Facilitates the clearing of temporary directories and build outputs to ensure a fresh development state.
• CLI File Managers - Ships as a command-line utility for executing deep file deletions with interactive confirmation.
• Glob-Based Deletion Utilities - Provides a specialized tool for removing files and directories based on glob patterns within Node.js projects.
• Pattern-Based File Deletions - Enables the removal of groups of files and directories matching specific glob patterns to clean project workspaces.
• Deletion Predicates - Provides a mechanism to evaluate custom boolean predicates against paths to exclude specific items from deletion.
• File System Utilities - Recursive file deletion.
• Cross-Platform Utilities - Deletes files or directories like rm -rf.
• File System - Performs deep file system deletion.
• Filesystem Utilities - Cross-platform file and directory deletion.

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