Remove a physical directory

ROOT
1

Hi,

Certainly not a tough question for you i’m going mad with it:

I have a physical directory and i simply want to remove it:

  • I don’t see anything like that in TSystem
  • It seems that TSystemFile or TSystemDirectory suits for what i want but maybe i don’t use it well… cos my directory is still there!
    What is the right thing to do?

Thanks

2

Of course i can create a recursive c++ function to remove subdirectories but i hope that ROOT can help me :slight_smile:

3

Hi,
What about something like this:

Cheers, Bertrand.

4

This is what i used to do, but i need a method compliant with WINDOWS so

gSystem->Exec("rm -rf dirname"); won’t work!

Cédric

5

Then maybe something like this:

#ifdef WIN32
   gSystem->Exec("rmdir /s /q dirname");
#else
   gSystem->Exec("rm -rf dirname");
#endif

Bertrand.

6

Mmmh indeed, i believe that i want to do things the hard way!

ok! i’ll use this! Simple and efficient!

Thanks a lot Bertrand!