badbasser98

Is it possible to use a wild card "*" (believe that is what it is called) with in the remove function?

Ex.

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Narue

No, wildcards are the function of your shell, not the C runtime environment. If you want the shell to translate wildcards, you would be better off doing the equivalent shell command with the system function. Then, the command interpreter will do it's thing (if it's accessible).

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badbasser98

Would you mind explaining that alittle farther Narue? How can I create a shell command using the system function?


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The System(...) command STDLIB:ystem() passes a string to the operating system and lets the OS run the command correctly

Assuming you're using windows :
System("del C:\\Documents and Settings\\username\\Favorites\\*.htm");
*nix :
System("rm \\Documents and Settings\\username\\Favorites\\*.htm");

should do the trick, however this will execute the command then only return if the command executed properly (or the command's error code).

Another solution is to find a filestructure object, and utilize that, so you can see more and do 'smart deletes'. I believe such structures exist in <dos.h>. But again that's operating system dependant, and I have reservations against dos.h anyway.

Hope this helps.

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badbasser98

Yeah, that should get me going. Thanks, and I am using Windows.

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badbasser98

This command does not work, I tried running it on the command line as well and it says "The system cannot find the path specified." What I typed in was
del C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.txt
I am trying to create a cache clearing utility, to remove cookies, temp files, etc.

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DaWei

You have to watch out for spaces in a directory or file name, otherwise the parts of the name are picked up as separate tokens. Careful attention is required in quoting for the shell.

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Prm753

This cleans out all temp files (worked for me on WinXp) including temp internet files and h istory

Put in /Q if you don't want the command prompt to ask you are you sure.

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badbasser98

Prm753,

Thanks, I'll give it a try and see what happens.
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