[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1158: g.mremove fails when used with wildcard in WinGRASS-6.4.0-1

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#1158: g.mremove fails when used with wildcard in WinGRASS-6.4.0-1
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 Reporter:  lponti                |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect                |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:  6.4.1                    
Component:  Vector                |     Version:  6.4.0                    
 Keywords:  g.mremove, wildcards  |    Platform:  MSWindows 7              
      Cpu:  x86-32                |  
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Comment(by hellik):

 Replying to [comment:1 hellik]:
 > Replying to [ticket:1158 lponti]:
 > > wxgui g.mremove called on vector with * wildcard does not work:
 >
 > I can confirm this (WinVista23-box).
 >
 > but it's very interesting:
 >
 > a first run of
 >
 > {{{
 > g.mremove -f vect=map*
 > }}}
 >
 > gets following
 >
 > {{{
 > Unable to delete file
 'C:\cygwin\home\andy/latlong/luigi/vector/mapBloomday_Olive_11set10_Avg/hist'
 > }}}
 >
 > there seems to be a problem with the hist-section of the Grass-vector-
 data-structure.
 >
 > but in a second run of
 >
 > {{{
 > g.mremove -f vect=map*
 > }}}
 >
 > all vector maps marked by the *-wildcard are deleted.
 >
 > Helmut

 tested also with the latest wingrass65-nightly build. there also you need
 two runs of g.mremove -f to remove a vector map.

 Helmut

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