}
----

[[sec:deleting_files_example]]
== Deleting files and directories

Deleting files and directories in Gradle involves removing them from the file system.

=== Using the `Delete` task

You can easily delete files and directories using the link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.tasks.Delete.html[Delete] task.

mkdir $GOPATH/src/empty
cd $GOPATH/src/empty
go mod init
stderr 'empty'
rm go.mod

# In Plan 9, directories are automatically created in /n.
# For example, /n/go.mod always exist, but it's a directory.
# Test that we ignore directories when trying to find go.mod.
cd $WORK/gomoddir
! go list .

    /**
     * Visits the files and directories in this file tree. Files are visited in depth-first prefix order, so that a directory
     * is visited before its children.
     *
     * @param visitor The visitor.
     * @return this
     */
    FileTree visit(FileVisitor visitor);

    /**

			}
			return wait, nil
		})
}

// Mkdir creates a directory and any needed parent directories.
func Mkdir() Cmd {
	return Command(
		CmdUsage{
			Summary: "create directories, if they do not already exist",
			Args:    "path...",
			Detail: []string{
				"Unlike Unix mkdir, parent directories are always created if needed.",
			},
		},
		func(s *State, args ...string) (WaitFunc, error) {

        where:
        changesCount << [1, changesLimit, 11]
    }

    def "should report the changes when directories are created #changesCount"(changesCount) {
        given:
        // We need to put these directories in subdirectories, since on Linux we'd stop watching a directory as soon as we
        // received file changes for all the files inside.

     */
    CONTINUE,

    /**
     * Terminate visiting immediately.
     */
    TERMINATE,

    /**
     * If returned from visiting a directory, the directories entries will not be visited;
     * otherwise works as {@link #CONTINUE}.
     */
    SKIP_SUBTREE

	err            error
	verbosityLevel int
}

// MakeCovDataReader creates a CovDataReader object to process the
// given set of input directories. Here 'vis' is a visitor object
// providing methods to be invoked as we walk through the data,
// 'indirs' is the set of coverage data directories to examine,
// 'verbosityLevel' controls the level of debugging trace messages
// (zero for off, higher for more output), 'flags' stores flags that

	// On some systems where we host-mount /etc/ssl/certs, it is also required to mount additional directories.
	// This is needed due to symlinks pointing from files in /etc/ssl/certs to these directories.
	for _, caCertsExtraVolumePath := range caCertsExtraVolumePaths {
		if isExtraVolumeMountNeeded(caCertsExtraVolumePath) {

//
// osMkdirAll creates a directory named path,
// along with any necessary parents, and returns nil,
// or else returns an error.
// The permission bits perm (before umask) are used for all
// directories that MkdirAll creates.
// If path is already a directory, MkdirAll does nothing
// and returns nil.
func osMkdirAll(dirPath string, perm os.FileMode, baseDir string) error {
	if baseDir != "" {

        srcFile.writeText("public class ${className} { }")
    }
}

// Create the source generation task
tasks.register<GenerateSource>("generate") {
    // Configure the locations, relative to the project and build directories
    configFile = layout.projectDirectory.file("src/config.txt")
    outputDir = layout.buildDirectory.dir("generated-source")
}

// Change the build directory