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Delete Files

Deletes one or more files from KiFS.

Input Parameter Description

NameTypeDescription
file_namesarray of stringsAn array of names of files to be deleted. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimeter. Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character.
optionsmap of string to strings

Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Supported Parameters (keys)Parameter Description
no_error_if_not_exists

If true, no error is returned if a specified file does not exist The default value is false. The supported values are:

  • true
  • false

Output Parameter Description

NameTypeDescription
file_namesarray of stringsNames of the files deleted from KiFS
infomap of string to stringsAdditional information.