Permanently deleting a file

Okay, so right now im using the remove() function thats in stdio. The problem with that is that the file to be deleted is being moved to the recycle bin. I need to to be deleted permanently, as if it's been emptied from the recycle bin.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

remove is standard C function
standard C is not aware about Recycled Bin which purely windows specific

So look for some Windows API functions for removing files

Eh, its actually a console program that accepts command-line arguments- File shredder.

I wound up using sprintf() and a system call to do the job.

Thanks for your time.

I use

Code:

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system("del C:\*\*\* /f");

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It's windows specific.
EDIT: Or maybe it's 2 backslashes... Not sure.

That will delete all the C drive (files only). Not what you want, is it?
Using system is most times a bad idea.
Plus You must use double backslashes \\ to represent a single one in a string.
"\\" is be interpreted as a \.

The stars represent sub directories. EG.

Code:

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system("del C:\\Users\\bradszy\\Desktop\\NewTextDocument.txt");

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Possibly?

Code:

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#pragma comment( lib, "shell32.lib" )
#include <windows.h>
#include <shellapi.h>

int main(void)
{
    SHFILEOPSTRUCT fos;
    memset(&fos, 0, sizeof fos);
    fos.pFrom =  "C:/test.txt";
    fos.wFunc = FO_DELETE;
    fos.fFlags = FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | FOF_SILENT;
    SHFileOperation(&fos);
    return 0;
}

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What is wrong with std::remove();. It works fine, and doesn't send anything to the recycle bin.

Or if you have to use the API, RemoveFile.

But I can't imagine std::remove() sending anything to the bin either.