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martin

Re: Deleting all empty folders using WinSCP

2019-06-14

There's no way to delete empty folders with WinSCP scripting.

But once you are using C# anyway, you should switch to WinSCP .NET assembly:
https://beta.winscp.net/eng/docs/library
https://beta.winscp.net/eng/docs/library_ssis

With the assembly, it's way easier to iterate the folders, checking which are empty and deleting them.

Pretty

Deleting all empty folders using WinSCP

2019-06-11 16:14

Hello,

I'm using WinSCP through an SSIS task.

I'm want to delete all the empty directories in the sftp server, but it doesn't work.

My code :

winscp.StandardInput.WriteLine("open Sftp://" + UserFilesServer + "@" + FilesServer + ":" + WinSCPPort + " -privatekey=" + KeyFilesServer + " -passphrase=" + WinSCPPass);

winscp.StandardInput.WriteLine(" cd " + PathFilesServer);

[...]

winscp.StandardInput.WriteLine(" cd ../" + PathFilesServerEnvoi);

winscp.StandardInput.WriteLine("rmdir *");

Everything works, except the last line "rmdir *" that doesn't have any effect.

I tried to use "rm *<1M" to delete everything that is less than 1MB but it deleted everything in the directory, even if it weights more than 1MB.

Can someone help me with this problem ?

Thank you in advance, best regards.

Pretty.

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