Thank you all for your responses. Rassak I have looked at the Power PlugIn Pack
(I did before and just missed it) and I will contact you offline about that
because I don’t see an option to perform an operation on all subdirectories.
What I have discovered is the following works:
SET VAR vdblquote = (CHAR(34))
SET VAR vcommand = ('zip rollout cmd /c' & 'DEL' & .vdblquote + 'c:\temp\*.bak'
+ .vdblquote & '/s /q')
By moving the /s /q outside the double quotes this command is now working.
Thanks again for all the response,
Paul
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Javier Valencia
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:39 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: How to Globally Delete Files fromSubdirectories
Karen,
Sometimes when I need to work work with subdirectories, I capture and store
the current directory, move to the subdirectory, do what I need to do there
and then return to the starting directory using the variable previously stored.
Javier,
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-------- Original message --------
From: Karen Tellef <[email protected]>
Date: 06/20/2015 9:27 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: How to Globally Delete Files from Subdirectories
Javier: If you notice in Paul's original syntax, he's using the DOS delete
command to delete files in ALL the subdirectories of a root directory. That's
why I didn't respond to him cuz I have no idea how you could construct a
"regular" delete command that would reach down subdirectory levels.
Karen
-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Valencia <[email protected]>
To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 8:57 pm
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: How to Globally Delete Files from Subdirectories
Paul,
In my command file I use the following command to get rid of all the
temporary files created when the last user logs out:
SET VAR vconnections
=(CVAL('CONNECTIONS'))
SET ERROR MESSAGE 2077 OFF
IF vconnections = 1 THEN
DEL *.$$$
ENDIF
SET ERROR MESSAGE 2077 ON
As far as I know it works
correctly. If you have blanks in your path, you might try building up the
variable with the path and criteria and using the ampersand:
SET VAR vcommand
= ('D:\CAD\*.bak ')
DEL &vcommand
Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE
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-----Original
Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]?> ]
On Behalf Of
Paul Buckley
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 10:43 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing
List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - How to Globally Delete Files from
Subdirectories
Good Afternoon,
I'm using the latest build of eXtreme 9.5
(64) and I've got a compiled application that is not working correctly in one
spot. I am trying to delete all the BAK files in all the subdirectories of a
folder. The following worked for quite a while and now appears to be not
working:
SET VAR vdblquote = (CHAR(34))
SET VAR vcommand = ('zip cmd /c' &
'DEL' & .vdblquote + 'D:\CAD\*.bak /s /q' + .vdblquote) &vcommand
Any blues
clues as to where to start looking or what to do differently?
TIA,
Paul
Buckley
