What does “!–” do in JavaScript?

I have this piece of code (taken from this question): var walk = function(dir, done) { var results = []; fs.readdir(dir, function(err, list) { if (err) return done(err); var pending = list.length; if (!pending) return done(null, results); list.forEach(function(file) { file = path.resolve(dir, file); fs.stat(file, function(err, stat) { if (stat && stat.isDirectory()) { walk(file, function(err, res) … Read more