any command like DOS's Deltree to delte folders?

[rahmanjan]

hi all,

I wonder do we have any command like DelTree in DOS which deletes a folder with all its sub-folders and files ... or i have to use FSO and loop through and delete one by one??

regards,

rahman

 

[TomKane]

You could always shell the dos command using command /c

COMMAND [[drive:]path] [device] [/E:nnnnn] [/P] [/C string] [/MSG]

[drive:]path Specifies the directory containing COMMAND.COM file.
device Specifies the device to use for command input and output.
/E:nnnnn Sets the initial environment size to nnnnn bytes.
/P Makes the new command interpreter permanent (can't exit).
/C string Carries out the command specified by string, and then stops.
/MSG Specifies that all error messages be stored in memory. You
need to specify /P with this switch.

 

[ddc821]

Dim MySystemObject As New FileSystemObject
Dim sFileFolder as String

sFileFolder = "c:\mydocs\test"
MySystemObject.DeleteFolder sFileFolder, True

The "True" will force the delete even if a file is read-only.

 

[tg2003]

I made similar software some years ago.
the concept was to make the deletion recursively: get into a directory, delete all files, than delete the next directory, ...