Delete files on 'post build event'

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I want to use 'Post build Event'.

Want thing: I want to delete all files except some.

ex) A.dll, B.dll, C.dll, D.dll, E.dll, F.dll
remain : C.dll, E.dll

Actually this is an example, but I have many more files. So I can't input one by one. I want to know a regular expression or some command.

Thanks!

What I have tried:

del a.dll /Q /S
del b.dll /Q /S
del d.dll /Q /S
del f.dll /Q /S

I want to reduce the number of lines.

Posted 20-Jun-18 15:11pm

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Updated 24-Oct-23 11:14am

Deeksha Shenoy

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Super Lloyd · Answer 1 · 2018-06-20T16:06:00

post build command run some build-in DOS command or executable on your system path.
Now do you know of an executable which does that?
Well I do not but... You could write one!
Make a console app which does just that. Make it so it is build first (using the dependency property project setting) and then invoke it in the post build event. Voila!

Jesse Pfannenstiel · Answer 2 · 2023-10-20T05:58:00

Solution 2

This worked for me:

DEL /S /Q "$(TargetDir) " a.dll b.dll c.dll d.dll
if %errorlevel% leq 4 exit 0 else exit %errorlevel%

Posted 20-Oct-23 5:58am

Jesse Pfannenstiel

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Dave Kreskowiak 20-Oct-23 12:38pm

That's nice and all, but I would hope the OP is not still wrestling with this five years later.

Build events questions are extremely rare, but this doesn't really have anything to do with the build events but instead knowledge of DOS commands.