added C++ based nuke tool to nuke dirs/files

cat.c

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 #include<string.h>
 int main(int argc,char *argv[])
 {
-
     if(argc==1) {
 read_from_stdin();
 return 0;

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
+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()
-
-# Combine version and hash
   full_version = '@0@(@1@)'.format(meson.project_version(), git_hash)
+endif
 
-# 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: '.')

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]);
+}
+}

version.h

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.1

version.hcode

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.1 meow.c