What-Is-Jenkins-deleteDir.md

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• deleteDir

Example #1

pipeline {
  agent any
  stages {
    stage('create files') {
      steps {
        sh '''
          touch file1.txt
          touch file2.txt
          touch file3.txt
        '''
      }
    }
    stage('list files') {
      steps {
        sh 'tree'
      }
    }
    stage('deleteDir') {
      steps {
        deleteDir()
      }
    }
    stage('list files again') {
      steps {
        sh 'tree'
      }
    }
  }
}

Example #2

pipeline {
  agent any
  stages {
    stage('create files') {
      steps {
        sh '''
          mkdir -p target
          touch file1.txt
          touch file2.txt
          touch file3.txt
          touch target/file4.txt
          touch target/file5.txt
          touch target/file6.txt
        '''
      }
    }
    stage('list files') {
      steps {
        sh 'tree'
      }
    }
    stage('deleteDir') {
      steps {
        dir('target') {
          deleteDir()
        }
      }
    }
    stage('list files again') {
      steps {
        sh 'tree'
      }
    }
  }
}