(delete-file) does not accept wildcards?

[pjot]

Hi,

It seems that this code is not working:

> (delete-file "somedir/*.*")
nil

Why not? Do I first have to setup a list of files in that directory, and then walk through that list to delete them one-by-one...? :-(

Regards
Peter

[cormullion]

I suspect that delete-file only takes a filename, not a pathname. So *.* isn't valid.

Just a thought.

[pjot]

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(dolist (x (directory temp_dir)) (delete-file (append temp_dir "/" x)))

...but the wildcard is more easy.

Peter