Tasker- Deleting files

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As the title says I'm looking to delete the contents of a folder on my sd card on a daily basis using Tasker. I've had a look around the net but I'm still no wiser. Anybody here now a simple way of going about this? Thanks.

J_E

Would a script do it? You'd have to be rooted of course.

I'm thinking something along the lines of 'rm [directory]/*.jpg' , *.jpg being all the images in the folder, or whatever format you use.

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Cydoniac wrote: »

Would a script do it? You'd have to be rooted of course.

I'm thinking something along the lines of 'rm [directory]/*.jpg' , *.jpg being all the images in the folder, or whatever format you use.

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Tried that and a few variations. No joy. Back to the drawing board!

Bluefrog

I have a feeling Android is like Linux and it takes a little more effort to delete a non-empty folder. I have a task where I list the files in a folder which gives me a variable (array) and then run a for loop through those elements to delete each file. You may require root depending where the files are and who owns them. Both the 'List files 'and delete file actions are inbuilt Tasker ones - no script required.

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Bluefrog wrote: »

I have a feeling Android is like Linux and it takes a little more effort to delete a non-empty folder. I have a task where I list the files in a folder which gives me a variable (array) and then run a for loop through those elements to delete each file. You may require root depending where the files are and who owns them. Both the 'List files 'and delete file actions are inbuilt Tasker ones - no script required.

Would you be able to post up a screenshot of the delete files part. Can't seem to get it sorry!

Bluefrog

If you do a list files action you get back an array - say you call it %files(). You can the do a for loop to loop through that array:
for %file in %files() and then run the delete action on %file for each run of the loop.