How To Delete a File in C

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to delete a file in C whose name will be entered by a user, the file to be deleted must be present in the directory where this program is located. The file extension must also be specified, the remove() function is used to delete a file. If there is an error in deleting the file, the error will be displayed by the perror function.
 

How To Delete a File in C

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  char file[30];
    
  printf("Enter the name of the file you want to delete: ");
  gets(file);
    
  if (remove(file) == 0){
    printf("The file %s has been successfully deleted.\n",file);
  }    
  else
  {    
    printf("Cannot delete the file\n");
    perror("Error");    
  }
  return 0;
}

Output:

Enter the name of the file you want to delete: file.txt
The file file.txt has been successfully deleted.

 

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