mdelete

deletes file(s)

Calling Sequence

mdelete(filename)

Arguments

filename a character string:  the pathname of the file(s) to delete.

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Description

mdelete may be used to delete a file or a set of files if filename contains meta-charaters.

Note that mdelete does not ask for confirmation when you enter the delete command. To avoid accidentally losing files, make sure that you have accurately specified the items you want deleted.

See Also

• mopen open a file in Scilab
• mclose closes an opened file
• meof check if end of file has been reached
• mfprintf converts, formats, and writes data to a file
• fprintfMat writes a matrix in a file
• mfscanf reads input from the stream pointer stream (interface to the C fscanf function)
• fscanfMat reads a matrix from a text file
• mget reads byte or word in a given binary format and converts to a double type
• mgetstr reads a character string from a file
• mopen open a file in Scilab
• mprintf converts, formats, and writes data to the main scilab window
• mput writes byte or word in a given binary format
• mputstr write a character string in a file
• mscanf
• mseek set current position in binary file.
• mtell binary file management