unlink every file that begins with a 'b'

[nielskg]

Hey Ya'll,

I was wondering if there is a easy way to unlink every file in a dir that begins with a 'b' for example?

if the are like 4 files in a dir; bread.txt, book.jpg, big.mb4 and appel.gif, then I wat to delete all the 'b' words, and leave the appel.gif alone...

Any suggestions?

Thanx,
Niels Kregting
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[nielskg]

Well? Doesn't anybody know how todo this??

[jc94062]

Hello, try waiting more than an hour or two...

Anyway, I don't know of any * / ? / grep or anything that will work as a wildcard for PHP so I'd do it like this...

$testchar = substr($filename, 1, 1);
$testchar = strtolower($testchar);

Then test it $testchar is "b" or not.
I'm not sure on my substr functions, play about with it a bit, might be 1, 0 or 0, 1 to just select the first character.

strtolower just changs the result to a small letter of course, if you only want to remove those with "b" and not with "B", don't use it.

[Anon]

yes, try being more patient...

this may be of some use:
http://parseerror.com/pizza/class.dir.phps

paul
http://xhawk.net