Deleting directories including subdirectories.

[sknyppy]

I have an interface that allows an authorized user to select
a directory from his/her profile and delete it.
The problem I have is that if the directory has subdirectories in it I can't delete it if it contains files. Also if the subdirectory contains additional subdirectories and so on.. I need to delete everything
below the selected directory. I 'think' I was on the correct track using the code below but my mind has wandered....
Thanks,
Dave

<CFDIRECTORY action=&quot;LIST&quot; name=&quot;FilesToRemove&quot; directory=&quot;#REQUEST.UploadLocation#\#ListGetAt (FORM.DirectoryID,1)#&quot;>

<CFOUTPUT QUERY=&quot;FilesToRemove&quot;>
<CFIF FilesToRemove.Type is &quot;Dir&quot;>
<CFDIRECTORY action=&quot;LIST&quot;
name=&quot;SubDirFilesToRemove&quot;
directory=&quot;#REQUEST.UploadLocation#\#ListGetAt(FORM.DirectoryID,1)#\#SubDirFilesToRemove.Name#&quot;>
<CFOUTPUT QUERY=&quot;SubDirFilesToRemove&quot;>
<CFIF Len(SubDirFilesToRemove.Name) GT 2>
<CFFILE action=&quot;DELETE&quot;
file=&quot;#REQUEST.UploadLocation#\#ListGetAt(FORM.DirectoryID,1)#\#SubDirFilesToRemove.Name#&quot;>
</CFIF>
</CFOUTPUT>
<CFDIRECTORY action=&quot;DELETE&quot;
directory=&quot;#REQUEST.UploadLocation#\#ListGetAt(FORM.DirectoryID,1)#\#SubDirFilesToRemove.Name#&quot;>
<CFELSEIF FilesToRemove.Type is &quot;File&quot;>
<CFIF Len(FilesToRemove.Name) GT 2>
<CFFILE action=&quot;DELETE&quot;
file=&quot;#REQUEST.UploadLocation#\#ListGetAt(FORM.DirectoryID,1)#\#FilesToRemove.Name#&quot;>
</CFIF>
</CFIF>
</CFOUTPUT>
<CFDIRECTORY action=&quot;DELETE&quot; directory=&quot;#REQUEST.UploadLocation#\#ListGetAt(FORM.DirectoryID,1)#&quot;

 

[GunJack]

Hey Dave,

This question comes up a lot as it involved directory recursion and the CF tags don't do this natively. I've written code that recursively called itself to process a variable number of sub-directories and it's not a fun thing to do. In your case, I think I would use the <cfexecute> tag to invoke the DOS &quot;rmDir&quot; command. You could do something like this to quickly delete a directory and all sub-directories.

<CFEXECUTE
NAME=&quot;rmDir.com&quot;
ARGUMENTS=&quot;/s /q directoryToDelete&quot;
>

Hope this helps,
GJ

 

[sknyppy]

I tried using that and it doesn't work but no error is returned. Is my code syntax incorrect?

<CFEXECUTE NAME=&quot;C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE&quot;
ARGUMENTS=&quot;RMDIR /S /Q D:\Inet\

http://wwwroot\xxx\User1\images&quot;>

</CFEXECUTE>

Thanks,
Dave

 

[GunJack]

Hey Dave,

Did you try it as I have it listed? I think you want to execute &quot;rmdir.com&quot; instead of &quot;command.com&quot;. I haven't done this in a while so I may have to setup a test but I think it should work (with some possible tweaking) if you use &quot;rmdir.com&quot;.

GJ