Re: delete-file using wildcard

[Tassilo Horn]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> ishi soichi <soichi777@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
>> the wildcard command does not seem work similarly in Emacs Lisp.
>>
>> (delete-file (subseq (file-expand-wildcards "~/Desktop/*") -1))
>
> `delete-file' wants exactly one file given as string, but the `subseq'
> form returns a *list* with exactly one file name, i.e., the last file
> matching the given wildcard.
>
> This should do the trick:
>
>   (delete-file (nth 0 (subseq (file-expand-wildcards "~/Desktop/*") -1)))

Argh, of course one would use `car' instead of `nth' here.

Bye,
Tassilo
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