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+// Copyright 2018-2019 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
+import { sendSync, sendAsync } from "./dispatch_json.ts";
+import * as dispatch from "./dispatch.ts";
+
+export interface RemoveOption {
+  recursive?: boolean;
+}
+
+/** Removes the named file or directory synchronously. Would throw
+ * error if permission denied, not found, or directory not empty if `recursive`
+ * set to false.
+ * `recursive` is set to false by default.
+ *
+ *       Deno.removeSync("/path/to/dir/or/file", {recursive: false});
+ */
+export function removeSync(path: string, options: RemoveOption = {}): void {
+  sendSync(dispatch.OP_REMOVE, { path, recursive: !!options.recursive });
+}
+
+/** Removes the named file or directory. Would throw error if
+ * permission denied, not found, or directory not empty if `recursive` set
+ * to false.
+ * `recursive` is set to false by default.
+ *
+ *       await Deno.remove("/path/to/dir/or/file", {recursive: false});
+ */
+export async function remove(
+  path: string,
+  options: RemoveOption = {}
+): Promise<void> {
+  await sendAsync(dispatch.OP_REMOVE, { path, recursive: !!options.recursive });
+}