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# deleteFiles

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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesResponse">DeleteFilesResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.deleteFiles </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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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L31681">31681</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesResponse">DeleteFilesResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.deleteFiles </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="paramname">file\_names</td>
              <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/cs/structkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesRequest_1_1Options#ade4b765e5cd8f771b4b378891abd752b">NO\_ERROR\_IF\_NOT\_EXISTS</a>: If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesRequest_1_1Options#a24cb4ac85ff0f256b774c12f4b656e04">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesRequest_1_1Options#a24cb4ac85ff0f256b774c12f4b656e04">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesRequest_1_1Options#aea3a313aadda59cef4a1aa061562760a">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesRequest_1_1Options#aea3a313aadda59cef4a1aa061562760a">FALSE</a>.
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                The default value is an empty Dictionary.
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L31744">31744</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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                <td className="memname">async System.Threading.Tasks.Task\< <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesResponse">DeleteFilesResponse</a> > kinetica.Kinetica.DeleteFilesAsync </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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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L31697">31697</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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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/cs/structkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesRequest_1_1Options#ade4b765e5cd8f771b4b378891abd752b">NO\_ERROR\_IF\_NOT\_EXISTS</a>: If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesRequest_1_1Options#a24cb4ac85ff0f256b774c12f4b656e04">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1DeleteFilesRequest_1_1Options#a24cb4ac85ff0f256b774c12f4b656e04">TRUE</a> </li>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L31791">31791</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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