Function remove_dir

pub fn remove_dir<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> Result<()>

Removes an empty directory.

If you want to remove a directory that is not empty, as well as all of its contents recursively, consider using remove_dir_all instead.

Platform-specific behavior

This function currently corresponds to the rmdir function on Unix and the RemoveDirectory function on Windows. Note that, this may change in the future.

Errors

This function will return an error in the following situations, but is not limited to just these cases:

• path doesn’t exist.
• path isn’t a directory.
• The user lacks permissions to remove the directory at the provided path.
• The directory isn’t empty.

This function will only ever return an error of kind NotFound if the given path does not exist. Note that the inverse is not true, ie. if a path does not exist, its removal may fail for a number of reasons, such as insufficient permissions.

Examples

use std::fs;

fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    fs::remove_dir("/some/dir")?;
    Ok(())
}