io/FileSystemEntity-class.html">FileSystemEntity</a> is a directory, and if <code>recursive</code> is false,
the directory must be empty. Otherwise, if <code>recursive</code> is true, the
directory and all sub-directories and files in the directories are
deleted. Links are not followed when deleting recursively. Only the link
is deleted, not its target.</p>
<p>If <code>recursive</code> is true, the <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity-class.html">FileSystemEntity</a> is deleted even if the type
of the <a href=