rm something*

[vsego]

Is there a way to do something like

system("rm something*");

but platform independent? I needed on both Linux and Windows, but I'd also like to avoid parsing the whole dir (opendir(), readdir(), closedir()) and substr()-ing each file.

Thanx

P.S. I could make a replacement rm.bat batch file on Windows or del script on Linux, but that doesn't look very pretty.

[matto]

given that even unlink "may not work on windows systems" (from the manual), I would make a replacement rm.bat file, as you said.

[vsego]

I'm considering that unlink() is working (it did on all WinNT/2k systems I've tried).

The point is: there are many files in the dir, and most deletes will remove only few of them (often only one). That's why I'm triing to avoid browsing the whole dir. Of course, rm.bat is my last (due to uglyness :-)) solution.

[vsego]

Also, I don't like calling system functions because of security issues.