RE: Mass Delete from IFS folder

Just for future reference, if you did not have the PKWARE product loaded, then 
you could still have created your .zip files using the jar command in QShell.  
While you're playing with the rm command, you might want to play with jar 
too....

jar cfM /test1/test1.zip /test1/*.*

jar                                                                      
Usage: jar {ctxu}[vfm0Mi] [jar-file] [manifest-file] [-C dir] files ...  
Options:                                                                 
    -c  create new archive                                               
    -t  list table of contents for archive                               
    -x  extract named (or all) files from archive                        
    -u  update existing archive                                          
    -v  generate verbose output on standard output                       
    -f  specify archive file name                                        
    -m  include manifest information from specified manifest file        
    -0  store only; use no ZIP compression                               
    -M  do not create a manifest file for the entries                    
    -i  generate index information for the specified jar files           
    -C  change to the specified directory and include the following file 
If any file is a directory then it is processed recursively.             
The manifest file name and the archive file name needs to be specified   
in the same order the 'm' and 'f' flags are specified.                    
                                                                          
Example 1: to archive two class files into an archive called classes.jar: 
       jar cvf classes.jar Foo.class Bar.class                            
Example 2: use an existing manifest file 'mymanifest' and archive all the 
           files in the foo/ directory into 'classes.jar':                
       jar cvfm classes.jar mymanifest -C foo/ .                          
  


Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-297-2863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Charlie Randall
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Mass Delete from IFS folder


Shannon;

    I am using a QCMDEXC call to a ZIP command that is part of a vendor
product we have. Command from a Prompt looks like this:

ZIP SOURCE('/test1/*.*') DEST('/test1/test1.zip') INCSUBDIR(*YES)
FULLPATH(*YES) COMPRESS(*MAX)

Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+crandall=aaacooper.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+crandall=aaacooper.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Shannon O'Donnell
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:48 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Mass Delete from IFS folder

How are you zipping the files in the IFS from your RPG program?

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charlie Randall
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:37 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Mass Delete from IFS folder

I am working on developing a RPG Application that will load an IFS
folder with image files.  Then it will zip up all the files into a zip
file.  This part is working fine.  However, this will be a nightly
process and I would like to clear the folder before loading and zipping
again.  So, is there a global command to delete all files in an IFS
folder that can be used in an RPG ILE or RPG Free Application?  Instead
of deleting them one by one.

Thanks,
Charlie