Delete all files in the default directory

Can Someone help me
how can i delete all files from the default directory?

gergo654, on 05 March 2016 - 02:33 PM said:

Can Someone help me
how can i delete all files from the default directory?

What do you mean?
The default directory of a CC computer is /.
To remove all files type rm * when the computer is opened.
The rom directory is readOnly, which means that it is not possible to remove it.

I hope that helped

or do fs.delete("*") within a Lua interpreter or a program.

fs.delete("*")

ry00000, on 05 March 2016 - 06:18 PM said:

or do fs.delete("*") within a Lua interpreter or a program.

That will only delete the file named *.
FS doesn't deal with wildcards, the shell does.

Oh. Didn't know that.

If you want to delete all files in the root directory of your computer (excluding rom and other read only directories) from within a program you could try something along these lines (untested as am on phone)

for _, file in ipairs( fs.list("") ) do --# loop every file and subdirectory
  if not fs.isReadyOnly( file ) and not fs.isDir( file ) then --# your question said 'all files'. If you want to delete all subdirectories too remove the 'and not fs.isDir( file )' from that if statement. The rest of the IF statement makes sure we don't try to delete the rom or other protected directories (causes crash).
    fs.delete( file ) --# delete the file
  end
end

Apologies if this doesn't work 100% as I mentioned I am on my phone and cannot test.