delete-file

How to make .BAT file delete it self after completion? I have a simple bat file that terminates a process. I want that .BAT file to delete itself. Merlyn Morgan-Graham @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL SET someOtherProgram=SomeOtherProgram.exe TASKKILL /IM "%someOtherProgram%" ECHO "This script will now self-destruct. Please ignore the next error message" DEL "%~f0" Note that the DEL line better be the last thing you intend to execute inside the batch file, otherwise you're out of luck :) This will print out an ugly error message, but it is benign, and the code is slightly less confusing this way. If you

Is it possible to make a batch file delete its self? I have tried to make it execute another file to delete it but this did not work does any one know how I could do it. The batch file I am using is elevated. My OS is windows 7 32 bit. npocmaka's answer works, but it generates the following error message: " The batch file cannot be found. " This isn't a problem if the console window closes when the script terminates, as the message will flash by so fast, no one will see it. But it is very undesirable if the console remains open after the script terminates. The trick to deleting the file

Is there any way to automatically delete all files or folders with few R command lines? I am aware of the unlink() or file.remove() functions, but for those you need to define a character vector with exactly all the names of the files you want to delete. I am looking more for something that lists all the files or folders within a specific path (e.g. 'C:/Temp') and then delete all files with a certain name (regardless of its extension). Any help is very much appreciated! joran Maybe you're just looking for a combination of file.remove and list.files ? Maybe something like: do.call(file.remove,

I have 2 directories on my GitHub repository. I'd like to delete one of them. How could I do that without deleting and re-creating entire repository? karmakaze Remove directory from git and local You could checkout 'master' with both directories; git rm -r one-of-the-directories git commit -m "Remove duplicated directory" git push origin <your-git-branch> (typically 'master', but not always) Remove directory from git but NOT local As mentioned in the comments, what you usually want to do is remove this directory from git but not delete it entirely from the filesystem (local) In that case use: