[Coco] [coco] Shell Scripts

[George Ramsower]

Is there a utility that will just delete the files in a directory without 
deleting the directory?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [coco] Shell Scripts


> George Ramsower wrote:
>> I've been trying to get a few OS9 commands to run in a shell script and 
>> have found a few problems....
>>
>> One problem I'm having is trying to delete a directory.
> ><snip>
>
> I've tried lots of routes to get some OS-9 commands to work in scripts but 
> some just won't do it in any reasonable fashion. In fact, I wrote a 
> modified version of deldir for just this purpose. It does not check with 
> you before deleting a directory so you don't want to make any mistakes.
>
> If you would be satisfied with a new command and not use deldir, I can 
> send you my version kildir. It will work from the command line or within a 
> script with the same syntax as deldir.
>
> kildir test
>
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