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RGtk2 (version 2.20.31)

gFileDelete: gFileDelete

Description

Deletes a file. If the file is a directory, it will only be deleted if it is empty.

Usage

gFileDelete(object, cancellable = NULL, .errwarn = TRUE)

Arguments

object
input GFile.
cancellable
optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.
.errwarn
Whether to issue a warning on error or fail silently

Value

A list containing the following elements:
retval
[logical] TRUE if the file was deleted. FALSE otherwise.
error
a GError, or NULL

Details

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.