Deleter, Deletes Files with Wildcards  Deleter, Deletes Files with Wildcards

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This project outline is not like the artificial tidy problems you are spoon-fed in school, when all the facts you need are included, nothing extraneous is mentioned, the answer is fully specified, along with hints to nudge you toward a single expected canonical solution. This project is much more like the real world of messy problems where it is up to you to fully the define the end point, or a series of ever more difficult versions of this project, and research the information yourself to solve them.

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Though I am a programmer, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

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Programs like 4DOS and tcc are painfully slow if you want to sweep your hard disk to remove junk files, e.g. temp?.*, temp.*, *.tmp, C:\temp\*.*. We need a program that will take a set of wildcards (positive and negative), and in one pass over the directories delete the described files. With the /S switch you request recursion over subdirectories. You should also be able to specify multiple directories with wildcards (positive and negative).

I have written a class called Batik which contains all the file scanning and deletion logic you need. I have written a FileName filter that takes postive and negative wildcards. You could use that as a base.

Disk Hogs Project
Filters
wildcard project

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