Deleter, Deletes Files with Wildcards

This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. It does not describe an actual complete program. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project any way you please.

Programs like 4DOS and 4NT are painfully slow if you want to sweep your hard disk to remove junk files, e.g. temp?.*, temp.*, *.tmp, C:\temp\*.*. We need a program that will take a set of wildcards (positive and negative), and in one pass over the directories delete the described files. With the /S switch you request recursion over subdirectories. You should also be able to specify multiple directories with wildcards (positive and negative).

I have written a class called Batik which contains all the file scanning and deletion logic you need. I have written a FileName filter that takes postive and negative wildcards. You could use that as a base.

I could send that to you. Disk Hogs Project, wildcard project, Filters.

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