Empty Directory Utility Under NT
Posted
by Michel Yossef David
on August 4th, 2000
Description
What is it ?
A "Del [Path\]*.*" /sxyz" NT utility.Explanations:
I had to write a "Empty Directory" utility on WIN NT, without using Shell. So I wrote this function. I think it can be usefull for programmers who don't have time to learn Files under NT.This is a recursive function which delete all the directories and files inside the directory sent as a parameter (sPath). The Parameter 'sPath' has to be a full path name without "\\" at the end.
So is it !
Attention !
With this call, you can empty every directory also important one. I am not responsible for deleting important data with my Code !Return Value:
TRUE if the directory exists,FALSE if it not.
Code
// Include this line before your code where you call
// this function !
BOOL EmptyDirectory(CString &sPath);
// This is a recursive function which empty a directory path
// of its files and call itself if necessary to delete
// subdirectories.
BOOL EmptyDirectory(CString &sPath)
{
CFileFind finder;
CString sWildCard = sPath + "\\*.*";
BOOL bFound;
BOOL bWorking = finder.FindFile(sWildCard);
bFound = bWorking;
while (bWorking)
{
bWorking = finder.FindNextFile();
if (finder.IsDots()) continue;
if (finder.IsDirectory())
{
CString s = finder.GetFilePath();
EmptyDirectory(s);
RemoveDirectory(finder.GetFilePath());
continue;
}
_unlink( finder.GetFilePath() );
}
return bFound;
}

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