I am making some installers for various programs, but would also like to include an uninstaller with them.
I do not want to build the installer with NSIS or Inno Setup. I know they do this automatically, but my installers are SFX archive based.
I know how to make the uninstaller delete the specified files I want removed, but is it at all possible to program it to remove itself after everything else from the program is uninstalled?
2 Answers
You can just make it delete itself with del uninstaller.bat or del "%~f0", where %~f0 represents the full path of the script.
dbenham found a clever trick to let a batch file delete itself without errors in this answer on StackOverflow
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In summary, (GOTO) 2>NUL behaves like EXIT /B, except it allows execution of concatenated commands in the context of the caller!
So all you need is
(goto) 2>nul & del "%~f0"
