diff --git a/cat.c b/cat.c
index db013fe..5accecd 100644
--- a/cat.c
+++ b/cat.c
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 #include<string.h>
 int main(int argc,char *argv[])
 {
-
     if(argc==1) {
 read_from_stdin();
 return 0;
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index c52b376..d6a4b4a 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-project('patricus utils', 'c', version: '3.4')
+project('patricus utils', 'c', 'cpp', version: '4.0', default_options: ['cpp_std=c++20'])
 
-# Get the short git commit hash
-git_hash = run_command('git', 'rev-parse', 'HEAD', check: true).stdout().strip()
+branch_name = run_command('git', 'rev-parse', '--abbrev-ref', 'HEAD', check: true).stdout().strip()
+if branch_name.startswith('stable/')
+  full_version = meson.project_version()
+else
+  git_hash = run_command('git', 'rev-parse', 'HEAD', check: true).stdout().strip()
+  full_version = '@0@(@1@)'.format(meson.project_version(), git_hash)
+endif
 
-# Combine version and hash
-full_version = '@0@(@1@)'.format(meson.project_version(), git_hash)
-
-# Generate header
 conf = configuration_data()
 conf.set('version', '"@0@"'.format(full_version))
 
@@ -16,4 +17,5 @@ configure_file(
 )
 
 executable('cat', ['cat.c', 'stdin.c'], include_directories: '.')
-executable('cmpsize', ['cmpsize.c', 'bytes.c'], include_directories: '.')
+executable('cmpsize', ['cmpsize.c', 'bytes.c'])
+executable('nuke', ['nuke.cpp'], include_directories: '.')
diff --git a/nuke.cpp b/nuke.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36ffa44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nuke.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#include<filesystem>
+#include<iostream>
+using namespace std;
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+for(int i=1;i<argc;i++){
+    if(!filesystem::exists(argv[i]))
+{
+cerr<<"error, no such file or directory";
+return 1;
+}
+filesystem::remove_all(argv[i]);
+}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 49d5957..0000000
--- a/version.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.1
diff --git a/version.hcode b/version.hcode
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e45084..0000000
--- a/version.hcode
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.1 meow.c