SteveRussell
7th September 2006 02:03 UTC

extracting directories
Is it possible to extract entire directories and subdirectories (and their files) with File or some other command, without explicitly naming them?

I have a subdirectory "ase" that contains multiple directories of its own.

Here's what I have, which fails:

SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\ase"
SetOverwrite ifnewer
File "c:\Source Directory\ase\"

If I further specify a directory, it succeeds:

File "c:\Source Directory\ase\a\"

Is this in fact the correct way to extract folders and files to my install directory?

JasonFriday13
7th September 2006 02:54 UTC

Try:

File /r "c:\Source Directory\ase\*.*"

SteveRussell
7th September 2006 03:16 UTC

Thank you so much! I was having trouble understanding the manual in this regard.

SteveRussell
9th September 2006 02:08 UTC

And what would be the corresponding comprehensive Delete operation for:

File /r "c:\Source Directory\ase\*.*"

Without success, I tried:

Delete "$INSTDIR\ase\*.*"

None of the subfolders and their content were affected.

Anders
9th September 2006 03:09 UTC

RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\ase\"

CrushBug
9th September 2006 03:10 UTC

RMDir /r /REBOOTOK "$INSTDIR\ase"

where /r is do subdirectories, and /REBOOTOK allows for anything that was in-use to be removed on the next reboot.

Be careful as you can't remove the current working directory (i.e. SetOutPath $INSTDIR then try to RMDir $INSTDIR). You have to move out of it.

Check out section 4.9.1.8 in the help for more on RMDir.

SteveRussell
9th September 2006 05:04 UTC

Thank you very much, gentlemen! The quality of this forum is exceptional, and I greatly appreciate it.