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epsilon

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Joined: 30/07/2020
Location: Belgium
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Posted: 01:07pm 18 Sep 2020

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Hi again,

The mac/max archiving tools I posted earlier today can quickly leave you with a bunch of unnecessary files and directories on your filesystem. Deleting these one by one using KILL and RMDIR gets old just as quickly. The attached tool, xdel.bas, allows you to easily, recursively remove a directory and all its contents.

Details in the README below. Comments are welcome.

Cheers,
Epsilon.

xdel.zip

xdel recursive delete for Color Maximite2 by Epsilon
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Version 0.1

xdel.bas allows you to recursively delete a directory and all its contents.
xdel.bas also lets you delete files in the current directory matching a filespec. See example below.

Example 1: Recursively deleting directory
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> list files
A:/
<DIR> bak
<DIR> psgdemo
...
14:24 18-09-2020 3042 xdel.bas
3 directories, 12 files

> *xdel psgdemo
Recursive Delete 0.1 by Epsilon
Delete dir(s) psgdemo
Are you sure? (Y/N)? y
Processing dir psgdemo
Removing file .gitattributes
Removing file psgdemo.bas
Removing file psgmini.inc
Removing file README.md
Processing dir .git
Processing dir logs
Processing dir objects
Processing dir 91
Processing dir 9f
...
Done.

> list files
A:/
<DIR> bak
...
14:24 18-09-2020 3042 xdel.bas
2 directories, 12 files

Example 2: Deleting files using fspec
-------------------------------------
> list files
A:/
13:59 18-09-2020 23 test1.bas
13:59 18-09-2020 23 test2.bas
14:24 18-09-2020 3042 xdel.bas

> *xdel test*
Recursive Delete 0.1 by Epsilon
Delete file(s) test*
Are you sure? (Y/N)? y
Removing test1.bas
Removing test2.bas
Done.

> list files
A:/
14:24 18-09-2020 3042 xdel.bas

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twofingers

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Joined: 02/06/2014
Location: Germany
Posts: 1677

Posted: 12:42pm 19 Sep 2020

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Hi epsilon,

your Xdel is a very useful tool, I like it.

Thanks!

But the user interface is kind of improvable, as you certainly know.
Maybe your file tools can be combined with the FileBox?

Kind regards
Michael

PS. I am a little disappointed with the low level of feedback. I think it's important for newbies.

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epsilon

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Posted: 09:29am 20 Sep 2020

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Hello Michael,

The interface is intended to be a very simple CLI. For more UI behavior I think it's a good idea to integrate into FileBox.
If you think the CLI needs improvement, suggestions are welcome :-)

Cheers,
Epsilon.

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epsilon

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Posted: 11:28am 28 Sep 2020

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I put xdel on GitHub:

https://github.com/epsilon537/xdel

and I linked it in at Fruit Of the Shed:

http://fruitoftheshed.com/Colour%20MaxiMite%202%20(CMM2).Example-games-and-other-programs.ashx?NoRedirect=1#Utilities_8&NS=Colour%20MaxiMite%202%20(CMM2)

Cheers,
Epsilon.

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