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Forum => Anything else we might add? => Topic started by: pjot on December 11, 2007, 06:42:10 AM

Title: (delete-file) does not accept wildcards?
Post by: pjot on December 11, 2007, 06:42:10 AM
Hi,



It seems that this code is not working:


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> (delete-file "somedir/*.*")

nil


Why not? Do I first have to setup a list of files in that directory, and then walk through that list to delete them one-by-one...? :-(



Regards

Peter
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Post by: cormullion on December 11, 2007, 07:45:33 AM
I suspect that delete-file only takes a filename, not a pathname. So *.* isn't valid.



Just a thought.
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Post by: pjot on December 11, 2007, 08:53:29 AM
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(dolist (x (directory temp_dir)) (delete-file (append temp_dir "/" x)))


...but the wildcard is more easy.



Peter
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