Thread: Deleting files.

I'm trying to make a program that deletes a file called biblio.exe which is in the root dir. I try to accomplish that by first going to the root dir (I think I'm correct) and then opening the file and then using remove.
But it doesnt seem to work, what's wrong?? It says "error en remove".

#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"

main(void)
{
FILE *fp;

system("cd..");
system("cd..");
system("cd..");
system("cd..");

if((fp=fopen("biblio.exe","rb"))==NULL){
printf("Error al abrir archivo!");
exit(1);
}

if(remove(fp)) printf("Error en remove!");
}

You are using remove incorrectly.

remove( "myfilename" );

Quzah.

Originally posted by RpiMatty
oh and try system("cd \"); to get to the root dir

Why bother?

remove( "c:/myprogram.exe" );

Although to be fair, you could be on another drive than C.

Quzah.

If it is under Windows, i doubt this will ever work, because you have opened this file, and Windows will not allow you to delete any file when it is open or being accessed.

It has nothing to do with Windows. His example is wrong because he's passing "remove" a file pointer when it takes a character pointer as an argument.

Quzah.