On 01/28/2013 08:24 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Hi. > > Just a small addition to the various answers > > On 27/01/13 22:25, Sebastian Valenzuela wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> My Pd patch creates and saves new audio files to a designated folder on my >> desktop. I would like to have Pd delete these files every time I open my >> patch ([loadbang]). >> >> I've heard the [shell] object is a possibility, but i'm not too keen on >> terminal commands or how they will pertain to [shell]... > It would be helpful if you specified on with Operating System you are, because > [shell] is heavily OS dependent (I'm guessing Windows, but I may be wrong) >> >> Can anyone please give me an example of a command I would send to [shell] to >> delete all files within a specified folder on my desktop? If this isn't the >> best way to do it, is there another possibility through Pd? > A different strategy might also be to actually *not* delete files from within > Pd, but outside, befor or after you close your patch. This is easily > accoplished e.g. by a script. > > Also a suggestion would be to give the temporary files very eloquent names > such as 'TEMP_FILE_TO_DELETE_0001.wav' etc. and (whichever way you decide to > do it) delete specifically *those* files instead of e.g. the whole directory, > so e.g. instead of: > > rm -f ./dir_to_delete/* > > something like > > rm -f ./dir_to_delete/TEMP_FILE_TO_DELETE_*.wav' > > In my humble opinion it makes it more obvious what you want to delete, and > (hopefully) less error/disaster prone (ok.. I've been bit by accidentally > deleting files with no back up) > > Lorenzo.
Yes indeed! Its always a good idea to try to limit delete commands as much as possible :) .hc _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list