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The Bun.file() function accepts a path and returns a BunFile instance. Use the .delete() method to delete the file.

const path = "/path/to/file.txt";
const file = Bun.file(path);

await file.delete();

See Docs > API > File I/O for complete documentation of Bun.file().

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