Re: Recurs Directory Delete

From:	Adam Zey	Date:	Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:23:03 +0000
Subject:	Re: Recurs Directory Delete
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So? Windows has this thing called the "del" command that does the same thing as "rm". Regards, Adam. Mark Steudel wrote:

I wish, I'm on an IIS box. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Richard Lynch [mailto:ceo@l-i-e.com] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 2:09 PM To: tedd Cc: Mark Steudel; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Recurs Directory Delete On Fri, July 14, 2006 2:07 pm, tedd wrote:
At 11:55 AM -0700 7/14/06, Mark Steudel wrote:
I was hoping someone could give me a hand, I'm trying to create a delete folders function that recursively deletes folders and files from a given directory.
If you want to delete EVERYTHING, an exec("rm -r $path") could potentially be much more efficient. You'd be trading the cost of opening up a mini-shell against PHP iteration, so it would depend on the number of directories, but if there are LOTS of files, the rm -r will probably win.