Deleting Matched Files
Explore how to enhance a Go-based CLI tool by adding a file deletion feature using the os.Remove function. Learn to implement a safe deletion flag, integrate error handling, and update testing to prevent accidental data loss.
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Let’s make the walk tool a little more useful by adding the ability to delete
the files it finds. To do this, we’ll be adding another action to the tool and a new flag del of type bool, allowing the user to enable file deletion.
Learning how to write code that deletes files is an important aspect of creating tools that work with files and perform system administration tasks, but it comes with the risk that we might accidentally delete files we didn’t intend to delete. We need to make ...