Hi.
Just a small addition to the various answers
On 27/01/13 22:25, Sebastian Valenzuela wrote:
Hi list,
My Pd patch creates and saves new audio files to a designated folder
on my desktop. I would like to have Pd delete these files every time I
open my patch ([loadbang]).
I've heard the [shell] object is a possibility, but i'm not too keen
on terminal commands or how they will pertain to [shell]...
It would be helpful if you specified on with Operating System you are,
because [shell] is heavily OS dependent (I'm guessing Windows, but I may
be wrong)
Can anyone please give me an example of a command I would send to
[shell] to delete all files within a specified folder on my desktop?
If this isn't the best way to do it, is there another possibility
through Pd?
A different strategy might also be to actually *not* delete files from
within Pd, but outside, befor or after you close your patch. This is
easily accoplished e.g. by a script.
Also a suggestion would be to give the temporary files very eloquent
names such as 'TEMP_FILE_TO_DELETE_0001.wav' etc. and (whichever way you
decide to do it) delete specifically *those* files instead of e.g. the
whole directory, so e.g. instead of:
rm -f ./dir_to_delete/*
something like
rm -f ./dir_to_delete/TEMP_FILE_TO_DELETE_*.wav'
In my humble opinion it makes it more obvious what you want to delete,
and (hopefully) less error/disaster prone (ok.. I've been bit by
accidentally deleting files with no back up)
Lorenzo.
Thank you for your time,
Sebastian
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