Remove dir contents?

2012-04-05 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
There's rmdirRecurse in std.file, but it removes the folder itself as well as its contents. I'm looking for a function that removes only the contents of the dir. Is this in Phobos, and if not can we add it? Otherwise I have to use platform-specific calls to system() like "del *.*".

Re: Remove dir contents?

2012-04-05 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 4/5/12, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > Otherwise I have to use platform-specific calls to system() like "del *.*". Actually nevermind that, I can just remove the dir entirely and then re-create it.

Re: Remove dir contents?

2012-04-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:55:23 Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > On 4/5/12, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > > Otherwise I have to use platform-specific calls to system() like "del > > *.*". > > Actually nevermind that, I can just remove the dir entirely and then > re-create it. I don't believe that there'

Re: Remove dir contents?

2012-04-05 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 4/5/12, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > But it does have the downside of > the new directory possibly not matching the original one with regards to > permissions or ownership That's a very good point. Since I run all of my code locally I never run into these issues and so I've never given thought ab