Wild Card...

[RacecarSoft]

Is there a way to have a wild card? Like if I wanted to make a script that deleted all folders beginning with "EX_*" (where * is a wild card, meaning that no matter what was after EX_, it would be deleted).

Where you would use it like this:

DirRemove("C:\Program Files\Example\EX_*")

Thanks!

[computergroove]

depending on the OS you could call a command window and type the dos command for doing such a thing.

Example:

Send("{ctrldown}{esc}{ctrlup}");opens the start menu
send("rrr{enter}");highlights the run command on the start menu and hits enter
send("cmd{enter}");types the command for the command line prompt in windows xp and hits enter
send("cd \{enter}");brings the prompt to the root directory of c:
send("del C:\Program Files\Example\EX_*{enter}");delets the content you are talking about
sleep(30000);waits 30 seconds for the program to complete the deleting
send("!{f4}"};closes the command prompt window

[weaponx]

Is there a way to have a wild card? Like if I wanted to make a script that deleted all folders beginning with "EX_*" (where * is a wild card, meaning that no matter what was after EX_, it would be deleted).

Where you would use it like this:

DirRemove("C:\Program Files\Example\EX_*")

Thanks!

Did you try it?

depending on the OS you could call a command window and type the dos command for doing such a thing.

Example:

Send("{ctrldown}{esc}{ctrlup}");opens the start menu
 send("rrr{enter}");highlights the run command on the start menu and hits enter
 send("cmd{enter}");types the command for the command line prompt in windows xp and hits enter
 send("cd \{enter}");brings the prompt to the root directory of c:
 send("del C:\Program Files\Example\EX_*{enter}");delets the content you are talking about
 sleep(30000);waits 30 seconds for the program to complete the deleting
 send("!{f4}"};closes the command prompt window

This is ridiculously complex.

RunWat(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'del "C:\Program Files\Example\EX_*"')

[RacecarSoft]

Did you try it?

Yeah, it doesn't work, just tried again at the time of this post to make sure.

[rasim]

RacecarSoft

Try this:

#include <File.au3>

Dim $path = "C:\Program Files\Example"

$aFolders = _FileListToArray($path, "EX_*", 2)
If @error Then Exit

For $i = 1 To $aFolders[0]
    DirRemove($path & "\" & $aFolders[$i], 1)
Next

weaponx

del command don`t delete a folders, only files

[weaponx]

weaponx

del command don`t delete a folders, only files

I figured as much, I just fixed the code from above.