How to write a program such that it will delete itself after exectution?

How to write a program such that it will delete itself after
exectution?

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How to write a program such that it will delete itself after exectution?..

Answer / pranjali

I guess if your program name is program.c the last line of
your code should be the operating system call to to delete
the file "program.c".

once you compile it to get a .exe , the existance of
program.c is immeterial.

you will hv to take care of necessary error handling.

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How to write a program such that it will delete itself after exectution?..

Answer / siva

this code is tested succesfully.

#include <windows.h>

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

#include <string.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int arg, int argv[])
{

STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
STARTUPINFO sj;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pj;

ZeroMemory( &si, sizeof(si) );
si.cb = sizeof(si);
ZeroMemory( &pi, sizeof(pi) );

ZeroMemory( &sj, sizeof(sj) );
sj.cb = sizeof(sj);
ZeroMemory( &pj, sizeof(pj) );

if(!CreateProcess("C:\\Windows\\system32
\\cmd.exe", "/k del C:\\testp.exe", NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0,
NULL, NULL, &sj, &pj))
{
printf( "Hello CreateProcess failed (%d)\n",
GetLastError() );
}

return 0;
}