3.3.3 - Delete Group Information
Action Option -DG (-DeleteGroup) :
removes one or more group records from GDEXDB for the specified dataset.
Available mode options:
allows any specialist to set GDEXDB information, regardless of dataset ownership |
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skips trimming of spaces and comments from input values, speeding up input file processing |
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resets the top group index for file records in the affected group |
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re-evaluates and resets file counts for the affected groups |
Specify groups by index via -GI and the dataset via -DS. Deletion is blocked if a group still contains subgroups or data files. To delete a non-empty group, first retrieve its files with -GS (-GetSavedFile) or -GW (-GetWebFile), then either move them to another group via -CG (-ChangeGroup), reset their group index to 0, or remove them with -DL (-Delete). Once empty, the group can be deleted.
EXAMPLE 8. To delete group indices 2 and 3 of d744004: