My FTP server lists ".." and "." so I'll have to add a check for that to your script as well.
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On 19 Nov 2003, at 2:52 am, Dave Cragg wrote:
At 10:57 am +1000 18/11/03, Sarah wrote:I have a utility that creates a folder with several sub-folders on an FTP server and transfers files to the correct folders. This all works fine but I also want to be able to delete the complete folder when I've finished testing. So far, the only solution has been to loop through each file & sub-folder as I can't work out how to delete a non-empty folder.
I have tried "delete URL ftp://..."; and I have tried sending direct FTP commands: DELE & RMD but all three options return an error saying the directory is not empty.
Is there a way of doing this in a single step? Is it a server-specific setting (in which case I can't assume that it will work everywhere)?
Looping through the folders and files is the only way to do it right now. (The delete directory command works in a similar way.)
The handler below should do what you want. Check that "the result" is empty to confirm that it deleted everything. BUT please test carefully as there could be some gotchas.. It checks for the presence of a ".." listing. I don't know if any FTP servers include this in directory listings, but just in case. (I once got caught this way when looping through "the directories" on the local file system.)
on deleteFTPDirectory pUrl try if last char of pUrl <> "/" then put "/" after pUrl end if put url pUrl into tList if the result <> empty then throw the result end if repeat for each line tLine in tList if char 1 of tLine is "-" then put pUrl & word 9 to -1 of tLine into tFileUrl delete url tFileUrl if the result <> empty then throw the result end if else if char 1 of tLine is "d" then if word 9 of tLine <> ".." then put word 9 to -1 of tLine into tDir
put pUrl & word 9 to -1 of tLine into tDirUrl deleteFTPDirectory tDirUrl if the result is not empty then throw the result end if end if end if end repeat delete url pUrl if the result is not empty then throw the result end if return empty catch pErr return pErr end try end deleteFTPDirectory
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