Is node.js rmdir recursive ? Will it work on non empty directories?

Question

The documentation for fs.rmdir is very short and doesn\'t explain the behavior of rmdir when the directory is not empty.

Q: What happens if I try to use

Answer 1

I realize this isn't exactly answering the question at hand, but I think this might be useful to someone searching here in the future (it would have been to me!): I made a little snippet that allows one to recursively delete only empty directories. If a directory (or any of its descendant directories) has content inside it, it is left alone:

var fs = require("fs");
var path = require("path");

var rmdir = function(dir) {
    var empty = true, list = fs.readdirSync(dir);
    for(var i = list.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        var filename = path.join(dir, list[i]);
        var stat = fs.statSync(filename);

        if(filename.indexOf('.') > -1) {
            //There are files in the directory - we can't empty it!
            empty = false;
            list.splice(i, 1);
        }
    }

    //Cycle through the list of sub-directories, cleaning each as we go
    for(var i = list.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        filename = path.join(dir, list[i]);
        if (rmdir(filename)) {
            list.splice(i, 1);
        }
    }

    //Check if the directory was truly empty
    if (!list.length && empty) {
        console.log('delete!');
        fs.rmdirSync(dir);
        return true;
    }
    return false;
};

https://gist.github.com/azaslavsky/661020d437fa199e95ab