how to empy a dir

[masvil]

How can I empty a dir and its subdirs?

I mean to delete all files inside without change the tree structure.

[Thatsgreat2345]

Smoke_N wrote a great UDF to get every file and even sub files check it out

topic can be found here http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...&hl=Smoke_N

now you have to figure out how to use it

Check out Ubound and a For Loop and Filedelete is what u want

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#include <array.au3>
$file = @DesktopDir & '\SongFolder'
$array = _FileListToArrayEx($file, '*.mp3;*.wav', 0, '', False, True)
_ArrayDisplay($array, '')


Func _FileListToArrayEx($sPath, $sFilter = '*.*', $iFlag = 0, $sExclude = '', $iRecurse = False)
;UDF MADE BY Smoke_N
    If Not FileExists($sPath) Then Return SetError(1, 1, '')
    If $sFilter = -1 Or $sFilter = Default Then $sFilter = '*.*'
    If $iFlag = -1 Or $iFlag = Default Then $iFlag = 0
    If $sExclude = -1 Or $sExclude = Default Then $sExclude = ''
    Local $aBadChar[6] = ['', '/', ':', '>', '<', '|']
    For $iCC = 0 To 5
        If StringInStr($sFilter, $aBadChar[$iCC]) Or _
            StringInStr($sExclude, $aBadChar[$iCC]) Then Return SetError(2, 2, '')
    Next
    If StringStripWS($sFilter, 8) = '' Then Return SetError(2, 2, '')
    If Not ($iFlag = 0 Or $iFlag = 1 Or $iFlag = 2) Then Return SetError(3, 3, '')
    If Not StringInStr($sFilter, ';') Then $sFilter &= ';'
    Local $aSplit = StringSplit(StringStripWS($sFilter, 8), ';'), $sRead
    For $iCC = 1 To $aSplit[0]
        If StringStripWS($aSplit[$iCC], 8) = '' Then ContinueLoop
        If StringLeft($aSplit[$iCC], 1) = '.' And _
            UBound(StringSplit($aSplit[$iCC], '.')) - 2 = 1 Then $aSplit[$iCC] = '*' & $aSplit[$iCC]
        Local $iPid
        If Not $iRecurse Then
            $iPid = Run(@ComSpec & ' /c ' & 'dir "' & $sPath & '' & $aSplit[$iCC] & '" /b /o-e /od', '', @SW_HIDE, 6)
        Else
            $iPid = Run(@Comspec & ' /c dir /b /s /a "' & $sPath & '' & $aSplit[$iCC] & '"', '', @SW_HIDE, 6)
        EndIf
        While 1
            $sRead &= StdoutRead($iPid)
            If @error Then ExitLoop
        WEnd
    Next
    If StringStripWS($sRead, 8) = '' Then Return SetError(4, 4, '')
    Local $aFSplit = StringSplit(StringTrimRight(StringStripCR($sRead), 1), @LF)
    Local $sHold
    For $iCC = 1 To $aFSplit[0]
        If $sExclude And StringLeft(StringTrimLeft($aFSplit[$iCC], StringInStr($aFSplit[$iCC], '', 0, -1)), _
            StringLen(StringReplace($sExclude, '*', ''))) = StringReplace($sExclude, '*', '') Then ContinueLoop
        Switch $iFlag
            Case 0
                $sHold &= $aFSplit[$iCC] & Chr(1)
            Case 1
                If StringInStr(FileGetAttrib($aFSplit[$iCC]), 'd') Then ContinueLoop
                $sHold &= $aFSplit[$iCC] & Chr(1)
            Case 2
                If Not StringInStr(FileGetAttrib($aFSplit[$iCC]), 'd') Then ContinueLoop
                $sHold &= $aFSplit[$iCC] & Chr(1)
        EndSwitch
    Next
    If StringTrimRight($sHold, 1) Then Return StringSplit(StringTrimRight($sHold, 1), Chr(1))
    Return SetError(4, 4, '')
EndFunc

Edited December 23, 2006 by Thatsgreat2345

[Joon]

$rootDir = 'c:\temp'
RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /c del /s /q "' & $rootDir & '\*.*"')

Edited December 23, 2006 by Joon