May it support delete specified diretories or files in the app's diretory?

[hirokith]

I need to clean up some directories or files before upload files, is it possible to add the feature to the command? Really appreciated!

[bedaronco]

I stumbled upon ios-deploy about a week ago and the only thing that wasn't working well for me is that in order to remove a directory you had to clear the directory first. Which required a new connection for every file and subdirectory. Which was way too slow for how I'm using this.

So I made some changes. I have some local modifications that will empty directories if the path requested for the current --rm option is a directory. With the changes you could do:

ios-deploy --bundle_id my.app.whatever --rm /Documents

and it will remove everything in the apps Documents directory (not the Documents directory itself though). Or you could do any file or directory that you have a path for. For how I use it, I call ios-deploy --rm for every file and top level directory in Documents. The changes I made will go into all subdirectories and empty them out and then remove the subdirectory itself.

I would be happy to share these changes if you want them.

[shazron]

Thanks @bedaronco - a pull request is definitely appreciated!

[headupinclouds]

@bedaronco : Can you share the changes via PR? I have a similar need. Thanks.

[gabebear]

Is this related to #420 ?

[ptc-shunt]

See #440 (which supersedes #420 )

[gabebear]

I believe this is fixed in #440