MDELETE (Delete Multiple Files on a Remote System)

The MDELETE IBM® i FTP client subcommand deletes multiple files on the FTP server.

FTP client subcommand

MDelete { remotefile [remotefile...]}

remotefile: The files that you want to delete on the FTP server.

Note: When the remote file is a QSYS.LIB file, the FTP server deletes all members of the physical file. The file itself remains.

The following is an example of a library file system in NAMEFMT 0:

 MDELETE MYLIB/FILE1.MBRA YOURLIB/FILE2.MBRB

The previous example deletes member MBRA in file FILE1 in library MYLIB and member MBRB in file FILE2 in library YOURLIB on a remote system. The following is the same example in NAMEFMT 1:

 MDELETE /QSYS.LIB/MYLIB.LIB/FILE1.FILE/MBRA.MBR
 /QSYS.LIB/YOURLIB.LIB/FILE2.FILE./MBRB.MBR

The following is an example of a document library system in NAMEFMT 1:

 MDELETE /QDLS/QIWSOS2/PCSMENU.EXE /QDLS/PCSDIR/PCSFILE.EXE

The previous example deletes document PCSMENU.EXE in folder QIWSOS2 in the document library services library, and also deletes PCSFILE.EXE in folder PCSDIR in the QDLS library.

You can use an asterisk (*) to delete the files generically. For example, with NAMEFMT 0, if the remote system is a IBM i product, type:

 MDELETE MYLIB/MYFILE.*

This example would delete all members of file MYFILE in library MYLIB. Use of the asterisk is only valid at the end of a character string.