Big-Data-HPC-Platform/docs/ECLStandardLibraryReference/SLR-Mods/DeleteExternalFile.xml

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<sect1 id="DeleteExternalFile">
  <title>DeleteExternalFile</title>

  <para><emphasis role="bold">STD.File.DeleteExternalFile<indexterm>
      <primary>STD.File.DeleteExternalFile</primary>
    </indexterm><indexterm>
      <primary>File.DeleteExternalFile</primary>
    </indexterm><indexterm>
      <primary>DeleteExternalFile</primary>
    </indexterm>(</emphasis> <emphasis> location, path </emphasis> <emphasis
  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>

  <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
    <tgroup cols="2">
      <colspec colwidth="80.50pt" />

      <colspec />

      <tbody>
        <row>
          <entry><emphasis>location</emphasis></entry>

          <entry>A null-terminated string containing the IP address of the
          remote machine.</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry><emphasis>path</emphasis></entry>

          <entry>A null-terminated string containing the path/name of the file
          to remove.</entry>
        </row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </informaltable>

  <para>The <emphasis role="bold">DeleteExternalFile </emphasis>function
  removes the single physical file specified by the <emphasis>path</emphasis>
  from the <emphasis>location</emphasis>. The dafileserv utility program must
  be running on the <emphasis>location</emphasis> machine.</para>

  <para>Example:</para>

  <programlisting format="linespecific">IP   := '10.150.254.6';
infile := '/c$/training/import/AdvancedECL/people';
STD.File.DeleteExternalFile(IP,infile);
</programlisting>
</sect1>