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# deleteFiles

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          <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DeleteFilesResponse">DeleteFilesResponse</a> gpudb::GPUdb::deleteFiles </td>
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          <td className="paramtype">const <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DeleteFilesRequest">DeleteFilesRequest</a> &</td>
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      <p>Deletes one or more files from <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>

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              <td><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DeleteFilesRequest">Request</a> object containing the parameters for the operation.</td>
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        <div className="dd"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DeleteFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the result of the operation. </div>
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          <td className="paramtype">const <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DeleteFilesRequest">DeleteFilesRequest</a> &</td>
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      <p>Deletes one or more files from <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>

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              <td><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DeleteFilesRequest">Request</a> object containing the parameters for the operation. </td>
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              <td><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DeleteFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the results of the operation.</td>
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        <div className="dd"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1DeleteFilesResponse">Response</a> object containing the result of the operation (initially passed in by reference). </div>
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          <td className="paramtype">const std::vector\< std::string > &</td>
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      <p>Deletes one or more files from <a href="/content/tools/kifs/" target="_top">KiFS</a>. </p>

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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
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              <td>An array of names of files to be deleted. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter. Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (\*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character. </td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a1c101684fd2a7bf9938d723a89a0d299">delete\_files\_no\_error\_if\_not\_exists</a>: If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ac44710b49d35f16376c3119744109d27">true</a>, no error is returned if a specified file does not exist. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ac44710b49d35f16376c3119744109d27">delete\_files\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a55cd46bb5246b387ab60a2fe1c1225b7">delete\_files\_false</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a55cd46bb5246b387ab60a2fe1c1225b7">delete\_files\_false</a>.
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                The default value is an empty map.
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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
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              <td>An array of names of files to be deleted. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter. Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (\*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character. </td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a1c101684fd2a7bf9938d723a89a0d299">delete\_files\_no\_error\_if\_not\_exists</a>: If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ac44710b49d35f16376c3119744109d27">true</a>, no error is returned if a specified file does not exist. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ac44710b49d35f16376c3119744109d27">delete\_files\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a55cd46bb5246b387ab60a2fe1c1225b7">delete\_files\_false</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a55cd46bb5246b387ab60a2fe1c1225b7">delete\_files\_false</a>.
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                The default value is an empty map.
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