DeleteFiles.cs

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using System;
using Lucene.Net.Index;
using FSDirectory = Lucene.Net.Store.FSDirectory;

namespace Lucene.Net.Demo
{
    public static class DeleteFiles
    {
        
        [STAThread]
        public static void Main(System.String[] args)
        {
            var usage = typeof(DeleteFiles) + " <unique_term>";
            if (args.Length == 0)
            {
                Console.Error.WriteLine("Usage: " + usage);
                Environment.Exit(1);
            }

            try
            {
                // We don't want a read-only reader because we are about to delete.
                using (var directory = FSDirectory.Open("index"))
                using (var reader = IndexReader.Open(directory, false))
                {
                    var term = new Term("path", args[0]);
                    var deleted = reader.DeleteDocuments(term);

                    Console.Out.WriteLine("deleted " + deleted + " documents containing " + term);

                    // one can also delete documents by their internal id:
                    /*
                    for (int i = 0; i < reader.MaxDoc; i++) {
                        Console.Out.WriteLine("Deleting document with id " + i);
                        reader.DeleteDocument(i);
                    }
                    */

                    reader.Commit();
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.Out.WriteLine(" caught a " + e.GetType() + "\n with message: " + e.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}