Delte directory

[liten]

I want a file to delete its self after its done running would i just do this with DirRemove?

[herewasplato]

I want a file to delete its self ...

Is this "file" an AutoIt script? If yes, this you might want to consider this UDF from the FAQ:

Func _SelfDelete($iDelay = 0)
    Local $sCmdFile
    FileDelete(@TempDir & "scratch.bat")
    $sCmdFile = 'ping -n ' & $iDelay & '127.0.0.1 > nul' & @CRLF _
             & ':loop' & @CRLF _
             & 'del "' & @ScriptFullPath & '"' & @CRLF _
             & 'if exist "' & @ScriptFullPath & '" goto loop' & @CRLF _
             & 'del ' & @TempDir & 'scratch.bat'
    FileWrite(@TempDir & "scratch.bat", $sCmdFile)
    Run(@TempDir & "scratch.bat", @TempDir, @SW_HIDE)
EndFunc;==>_SelfDelete

[martin]

Is this "file" an AutoIt script? If yes, this you might want to consider this UDF from the FAQ:

Func _SelfDelete($iDelay = 0)
    Local $sCmdFile
    FileDelete(@TempDir & "scratch.bat")
    $sCmdFile = 'ping -n ' & $iDelay & '127.0.0.1 > nul' & @CRLF _
             & ':loop' & @CRLF _
             & 'del "' & @ScriptFullPath & '"' & @CRLF _
             & 'if exist "' & @ScriptFullPath & '" goto loop' & @CRLF _
             & 'del ' & @TempDir & 'scratch.bat'
    FileWrite(@TempDir & "scratch.bat", $sCmdFile)
    Run(@TempDir & "scratch.bat", @TempDir, @SW_HIDE)
EndFunc;==>_SelfDelete

Shouldn't

$sCmdFile = 'ping -n ' & $iDelay & '127.0.0.1 > nul' & @CRLF _

be

$sCmdFile = 'ping -n ' & $iDelay & ' 127.0.0.1 > nul' & @CRLF _

?

[liten]

and i dont understand how i am supposr to plug that in , i menan wat do i replace, @dir??

[herewasplato]

Shouldn't

$sCmdFile = 'ping -n ' & $iDelay & '127.0.0.1 > nul' & @CRLF _

be

$sCmdFile = 'ping -n ' & $iDelay & ' 127.0.0.1 > nul' & @CRLF _

?

Yep - It has been that way for a long time and is in SciTE4AutoIt3 :-)

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=129058

[herewasplato]

and i dont understand how i am supposr to plug that in , i menan wat do i replace, @dir??

maybe

;your code here

Func OnAutoItExit()
    _SelfDelete(5) ; delay in seconds
EndFunc   ;==>OnAutoItExit


Func _SelfDelete($iDelay = 0)
    Local $sCmdFile
    FileDelete(@TempDir & "\scratch.bat")
    $sCmdFile = 'ping -n ' & $iDelay & ' 127.0.0.1 > nul' & @CRLF _
             & ':loop' & @CRLF _
             & 'del "' & @ScriptFullPath & '" > nul' & @CRLF _
             & 'if exist "' & @ScriptFullPath & '" goto loop' & @CRLF _
             & 'del ' & @TempDir & '\scratch.bat'
    FileWrite(@TempDir & "\scratch.bat", $sCmdFile)
    Run(@TempDir & "\scratch.bat", @TempDir, @SW_HIDE)
EndFunc   ;==>_SelfDelete

[Jos]

Yep - It has been that way for a long time and is in SciTE4AutoIt3 :-)

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=129058

Yea, that has been in there for quite a while now.

It will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks

Jos

[Inverted]

Why not use the -w parameter to make it timeout for the milliseconds we need ?

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/wait.php

Edited July 3, 2009 by Inverted

[Jos]

Why not use the -w parameter to make it timeout for the milliseconds we need ?

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/wait.php

-w only does something for timeout. 127.0.0.1 gives a response so there is no timeout condition?

[Inverted]

Right, well, then it needs a non-existent IP like in that link I edited later.

PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 60000 >NUL

Now that I think about it, it's not really important for the purposes of this thread.

Edited July 3, 2009 by Inverted

[KaFu]

and i dont understand how i am supposr to plug that in , i menan wat do i replace, @dir??

You're not clear enough about what you want to accomplish. In the title you say delete dir, in the post that the exe should delete itself. So... should the exe delete itself after running, and which dir do you want to remove? For dir removal there is the function DirRemove ( "path" [, recurse] ), set recurse = 1 to delete all subdirectories too...