How to delete the exe in c

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hai,

i am creating one exe for opeartion ...Once the Operation done the exe want to delete automatically .

How to do that one. (Automatically want to delete that exe with out creating another exe)

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Posted 2-Nov-11 19:27pm

@BangIndia

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Nov-11 1:30am

Why such a strange idea? What's the purpose?
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Nov-11 18:02pm

What's your platform?
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Solution 4

[Answering a follow-up question]

It's too bad that you did not report your platform, but you did not object against the assumption it's Windows. If so, you can use ShellExecute to run the file, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762153%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

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Posted 3-Nov-11 12:05pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Prerak Patel · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-02T19:32:00

Solution 2

Self Deleting Executables[^]
Writing a self destructing exe file[^]

Posted 2-Nov-11 19:32pm

Prerak Patel

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Nov-11 18:01pm

It's weird that somebody voted 3 for this. A file can really be deleted using this method; my 5.
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-02T19:30:00

Solution 1

Not clear what is the scenario, what is one EXE, another EXE… You need to know one thing: it is not possible to delete any executable file loaded by a currently running process. EXE, DLL, does not matter.

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Posted 2-Nov-11 19:30pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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@BangIndia 3-Nov-11 1:34am

if i done one Operation then the exe want to delete..
Thats just a requirement ..
The exe must remove after the process over.. how to do?

Prerak Patel 3-Nov-11 1:35am

Yes, an EXE cannot delete itself for sure, but I found some good article for self deleting EXE on CP. It's just creating a batch file at temp location and call it at the end of task.

@BangIndia 3-Nov-11 2:06am

OK.. Good idea. but how to run that bat file..

Prerak Patel 3-Nov-11 5:16am

Check my answer down there. I think you should have checked it by now.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Nov-11 18:06pm

Please also see my answer of how to execute a batch file.
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Vivek Krishnamurthy · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-02T19:34:00

Solution 3

In very simple steps, towards the end of your program you need to run a batch file (in windows) the deletes the exe.

One complexity is that the file you are deleting might still be in use. so add a suitable delay in the batch file for the exe to be deletable.

Posted 2-Nov-11 19:34pm

Vivek Krishnamurthy

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@BangIndia 3-Nov-11 1:35am

How to call that one.. what patch file i want to call