Sten
Mon May 24 04:11:16 CDT 2004
"Andreas Hadler" <Andreas.Hadler@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:27t4a0tvrumn8ug5rte5lbmnu45jvqefvr@4ax.com...
> Viviana Vc <vcotirlea@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I would like to delete from a directory all the files that match: bar*.*
> >I know that I could do for instance: system("del bar*.*"), but this will
> >bring up the command prompt window and as my app is a winmain app this
> >wouldn't be nice. I could use DeleteFile, but you can not use wildcards
> >in this one.
> >
>
> STARTUPINFO si;
> PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
>
> ZeroMemory( &si, sizeof(si) );
> si.dwFlags |= STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW ;
> si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE ;
> si.cb = sizeof(si);
>
> ZeroMemory( &pi, sizeof(pi) );
>
> if ( CreateProcess( NULL, // Name of Application
> "del bar*.*", // command line
> NULL, // process attributes
> NULL, // Thread attributes
> FALSE, // no inheritable handle
> 0, // Creation flags
> NULL, // use callers environment
> NULL, // use current directory
> &si,
> &pi
> )
> )
> {
> DWORD dwExitCode = 1 ; // preset: error
> DWORD dwWaitResult ;
> dwWaitResult = WaitForSingleObject( pi.hProcess, INFINITE ) ;
> if ( WAIT_OBJECT_0 == dwWaitResult
> && GetExitCodeProcess( pi.hProcess, &dwExitCode )
> && 0 == dwExitCode
> )
> {
> // success
> }
> else
> {
> // failed
> }
> CloseHandle( pi.hProcess );
> CloseHandle( pi.hThread );
> }
> else
> {
> // failed
> }
>
> Andreas
Did you test that? I would claim that you have to inform shellexecute that
the REN command is inside CMD.exe .. that is "cmd /c ren .....". Also,
i can't see why ShellExecute() couldn't be used as well.
- Sten