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  10 (<TT>remove</TT>, <TT>rename</TT>, etc.)</title>
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  16 <H2>16.10: File Operations
  17 (<TT>remove</TT>, <TT>rename</TT>, etc.)</H2>
  18
  19 <p>You can delete a file
  20 by calling
  21 <pre>
  22         int remove(char *filename)
  23 </pre>
  24 </p><p>You can rename a file by calling
  25 <pre>
  26         int rename(char *oldname, char *newname)
  27 </pre>
  28 Both of these functions return zero if they succeed
  29 and a nonzero value if they fail.
  30 </p><p>There are no standard C functions for dealing with directories
  31 (e.g. listing or creating them).
  32 On many systems,
  33 you will find functions <TT>mkdir</TT> for making directories
  34 and <TT>rmdir</TT> for removing them,
  35 and a suite of functions
  36 <TT>opendir</TT>, <TT>readdir</TT>, and <TT>closedir</TT>
  37 for listing them.
  38 Since these functions aren't standard, however,
  39 we won't talk about them here.
  40
  41 (They exist on most Unix systems,
  42 but they're not standard under MS-DOS or Macintosh compilers,
  43 although you can find implementations on the net.)
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