cmd command in ShellExecuteW

External question — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: Luandre Ezra Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77781500 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I want to delete a file using cmd comment. I run the code in MQL5 language from my EA. Here's the code that I used string PathReportBacktest=sTerminalTesterDataPath+"\\MQL5\\Files\\Reports\\"+StrategyCategory+"\\"+StrategyName+"\\"+ FileName +" Report.xml"; ShellExecuteW(0, "open", "cmd", "/C del "+PathReportBacktest, "", 0) I tried to use the show window option and I found that the cmd opens up and closed without doing anything.

External answer — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: Luandre Ezra Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77785318 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. 2 things that I do to fix the problem, I found the problem which is the space within the file, if the file name is text.txt (doesn't have space) it works with the above but if the file name is text 1.txt, it will fail to delete the file. instead of using this code ShellExecuteW(0, "open", "cmd", "/C del "+PathReportBacktest, "", 0) I change it into ShellExecuteW(0, "open", "cmd", "/C del [fileName]", "[file location]", 0) e.g. ShellExecuteW(0, "open", "cmd", "/C del text*1.txt", "D:\\folder1\\", 0)