Re: st: erase

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 01:13 PM 7/16/2005 -0400, Luhang Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to erase all the files under certain directory in
> Stata? Or can files only be deleted one by one? Many thanks!
>
> Best,
> Luhang
The online help for the -shell- command includes these examples:

    . shell erase *.log               (Windows, DOS)
    . shell rm *.log                  (Unix and Macintosh)

Basically, if you could do something from a command prompt, I believe you 
ought to be able to do it with -shell-.

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