Delete a UNIX file or directory

You can use this operation to delete a UNIX file or directory.

HTTP method and URI path

DELETE /zosmf/restfiles/fs/<file-pathname>
where:
  • /zosmf/restfiles specifies the z/OS data set and file REST interface
  • /fs indicates a UNIX file or directory.
  • <file-pathname> is the name of the file or directory you are going to delete.

Request Body

None.

Standard headers

None.

Custom headers

X-IBM-Option:An optional parameter for deleting a directory. If it is not specified, only the empty directory can be deleted. If it is specified as recursive, it means all the files and sub-directories will be deleted.

Query parameters

None.

Content type

The content type is application/json.

Required authorizations

See Required authorizations.

Usage considerations

See Usage considerations for the z/OSMF REST services.

Expected response

On completion, the service returns an HTTP response, which includes a status code indicating whether your request completed. Status code 204 indicates success. A status code of 4nn or 5nn indicates that an error has occurred. For more details, see Error handling.

If the request is successfully executed, status code 204 indicates success and no content returned is returned.

Example request

In the following example, the DELETE method is used to delete a UNIX file.
DELETE /zosmf/restfiles/fs/u/jiahj/text.txt HTTP/1.1

Example response

A sample response is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Example: Delete a UNIX file
204 No Content
Content-Type:  application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length:  0
Date:  Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:10:22 GMT

Example request

The DELETE method is used to delete a UNIX directory.
DELETE /zosmf/restfiles/fs/u/jiahj/testDir HTTP/1.1

Example response

A sample response is shown in Delete a UNIX directory.
Figure 2. Example: Delete a UNIX directory
204 No Content
Content-Type:  application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length:  0
Date:  Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:15:22 GMT