Automatically Delete Files/Folders

Question

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

Answer 1

Using a combination of dir and grep this isn't too bad. This could probably be turned into a function that also tells you which files are to be deleted and gives you a chance to abort if it's not what you expected.

# Which directory?
mydir <- "C:/Test"
# What phrase do you want contained in
# the files to be deleted?
deletephrase <- "deleteme"

# Look at directory
dir(mydir)
# Figure out which files should be deleted
id <- grep(deletephrase, dir(mydir))
# Get the full path of the files to be deleted
todelete <- dir(mydir, full.names = TRUE)[id]
# BALEETED
unlink(todelete)