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Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! [message #69571 is a reply to message #69570]

Sun, 07 February 2010 00:59

penteado
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On Feb 7, 6:20 am, munka <mynameismu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 3:50 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>
>> Kenneth P. Bowman writes:
>>> Is that a long way of saying "operator error"?
>
>> Well, not exactly. It's a little more complicated
>> than that. :-)
>
>> Cheers,
>
>> David
>
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thos speakest truth.")
>
> just add spawn,'rm *' and all the files will be deleted! Even the
> ones you don't want deleted! problem solved!

Not necessarily. If the files are open, the OS may put a lock on them,
to keep them from being written or erased by other applications, until
IDL releases the lock by closing the files. Also, unless Windows has
at some point started accepting rm in the command prompt, that would
not work, as in DOS the command was del. Further, the remove command
might ask for confirmation, which would not be provided spawn.

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		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: David Fanning on Sun, 07 February 2010 07:28
		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: penteado on Sun, 07 February 2010 00:59
		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: munka on Sun, 07 February 2010 00:20
		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 February 2010 13:50
		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 05 February 2010 12:39
		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 February 2010 10:25
		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 February 2010 08:20
		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: Wout De Nolf on Fri, 05 February 2010 08:11
		Re: File Delete -- Friggin A!! By: munka on Tue, 09 February 2010 14:16

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