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  1. Jun 20th, 2000, 10:34 AM #1
    badhaiku
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    I am just getting started with VB and have decided to make a program that kills all my cookies.

    The problem that I am having is the kill command.

    Does the kill command recognize wildcards? i.e. :

    kill "C:\Windows\Cookies\*.txt"

    thanks for any help you can give me.

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  2. Jun 20th, 2000, 10:42 AM #2
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    Well, if you tested it, you should have gotten an error, thus meaning no, it doesn't support wildcards

    You need to find the specific file name of a file and then use the command.

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  3. Jun 20th, 2000, 11:11 AM #3
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    Red face kill command

    does anyone know if there is a way to delete all the files in a directory with a like extension at the same time without knowing the full file names?

    As in something like a wildcard ?

    I want to delete all the cookies in my cookies directory when i hit a command button inside my project.
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  4. Jun 20th, 2000, 07:06 PM #4
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    yeah you can do it...
    Loop trough all files in that dir, check the last 4 lCase(charachters) and when it says
    .txt then Kill it...

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  6. Jun 20th, 2000, 07:09 PM #5
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    I think you have to use dir function to return your files and then remove each of them
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