delete

Delete file on SFTP or FTP server

Syntax

delete(s,filename)

Description

delete(s,filename) deletes the specified file from the current folder on the SFTP or FTP server associated with s.

Examples

Delete File

Connect to an FTP server and delete a file. This example shows a hypothetical FTP session on ftp.example.com, a machine that does not exist. If you have an account on an FTP server that grants you permission to upload and delete files on that server, then you can use the delete function as shown in this example.

First, connect to the server.

s = ftp('ftp.example.com')

FTP with properties:

                         Host: "ftp.example.com"
                     Username: "anonymous"
                         Port: 21
                 ServerLocale: "en_GB"
                 DirParserFcn: @matlab.io.ftp.parseDirListingForUnix
                         Mode: "binary"
    LocalDataConnectionMethod: "passive"
       RemoteWorkingDirectory: "/"

Display the contents of the current folder on the FTP server.

dir(s)

 
myscript.m                  README.txt                pub    

Delete the file named README.txt.

delete(s,'README.txt')

Display the updated contents of the current folder. The README.txt file is no longer available for download.

dir(s)

 
myscript.m                  pub  

Input Arguments

s — Connection to SFTP or FTP server

SFTP object | FTP object

Connection to an SFTP or FTP server, specified as an SFTP object or an FTP object.

filename — Name of file to delete

character vector | string scalar

Name of the file to delete, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a