deleting only choosed files on a dir and subdir

[graziano]

Hello,

I am trying to write a script to delete only choosed files from a directory (and all subdirectories)

Suppose I need to delete only these 2 files ...

$file1="bad.html";
$file2="bad2.html";

from directory /home/user and its subdirectories .

Any idea to do that (?), I am really losed .. I am trying from hours ...

I was able to delete $files1 and $files2 from /home/user
but problem starts when I try to delete $files1 and $files2 also
on subdirectories ....

Thank you.
Graziano

[cgraz]

unlink("/home/user/sub_dir" . $file1);
unlink("/home/user/sub_dir" . $file2);

If you have any problems, then check the permissions. It shouldn't make any difference if it's a subdirectory or not.

Cgraz

[graziano]

Thank you , I know unlink but my question was another...

I am trying to write a function to delete $file1 and $file2
on $deletedir="/home/user"; (for example) .
The function should be able to remove $file1 and $file2
also on the $deletedir subdirectories (suppose
/home/user has 100 subdirectories ...) ...

[cgraz]

if you're trying to delete more than one file, you'll need to loop through the directory and delete the selected files using unlink. I haven't tested this code, but something like this:

$path = "/home/users/";

   if ($handle = opendir('vehicles/')) {

    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 

       if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
              unlink($path . $file);

       }

    }

   }

closedir($handle); 

You can modify it to delete sub-directories. Since I'm not on your server and don't know what you want to delete, you'll have to modify the code above to suit your needs.

Cgraz

[graziano]

Thank you .

I was using something similar however since I was not succesfull now I am working with your example

I am trying this now

$path = "/home/test/public_html/mailtest";
   if ($handle = opendir("$path")) {
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
           if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
                          #  unlink($path . $file);
                          echo "<br>$path/$file";
           }
        }
   }
closedir($handle);

As can you see I commented # unlink to avoid damages
and I inserted a echo line .

The script returns this

/home/test/public_html/mailtest/inbox
/home/test/public_html/mailtest/info
/home/test/public_html/mailtest/dream
/home/test/public_html/mailtest/sent-mail
/home/test/public_html/mailtest/saved-messages
/home/test/public_html/mailtest/neomail-trash
/home/test/public_html/mailtest/mago
/home/test/public_html/mailtest/inbox.pop

these are all directories .
Unluckly ,

1)..it doesn't report subdirectories for each directory
2)..it doesn't report files inside each directory ..
3)..it doesn't report files contained on /home/... /mailtest/

When I will be able to list all them (files and directories
on /home/test/public_html/mailtest/ something similar to
#ls -R using php ) , then It will be
easy to insert an if code to unlink only files
that are equal to $file1 or $file2 ...

Now the problem is to solve points 1) 2) 3) ...🙁

[graziano]

Ok I found the solution , and works fine .
I will post the code as possible.