Deep deletion command for .NET (like rm -rf).

This is based on the node tool of the same name.

This tool can be used as a dotnet global tool, or a dotnet local tool. If using it as part of a build script it's recommended to install it as a local tool.

dotnet tool install rimraf --global

dotnet new tool-manifest
dotnet tool install rimraf

Tools like Dependabot (community/community#13825) and Renovate don't currently support updating dotnet local tools. One way to automate this is to use a GitHub Actions workflow to check for updates and create PRs when new versions are available, which is what this repo does.

Use dotnet rimraf (rimraf if using as a global tool) to delete files and directories. You can pass one or more paths or globs to delete. Globbing is handled by the DotNet.Glob library and supports of all its patterns and wildcards.

rimraf artifacts coverage

rimraf artifacts/**/*-pre*.nupkg

rimraf **/bin **/obj

The working directory is the directory that rimraf is run from.

This project uses the run-script dotnet tool to manage its build and test scripts. To use this you'll need to run dotnet tool install and then dotnet r to see the available commands or look at the scripts section in the global.json.