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In article <1992Aug12.141526.25165@athena.mit.edu> chanh@athena.mit.edu (Chanh N. Vuong) writes:
>In article <92225.09262732BFPQ3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Nathan Owen <32BFPQ3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
>>I having a problem writing a batch file.  I need a batch file which will go
>>to a c:\Temp directory and delete every file in the directory except for
>>a file named gest.bat.  The batch must be written in such a way they the
>>user will not get a message asking Yes/No (Y/N) in response to deleting
>>the files , which limits your use of wildcard deletes like del *.*.
>>
>>Thanx in advance.
>
>Here goes:
>
>DEL_TEMP.BAT:
>@echo off
>c:
>cd \
>cd temp
>md tmp
>copy gest.bat tmp
>for %%a in (*.*) do del %%a
>copy c:\temp\tmp\gest.bat .
>del c:\temp\tmp\gest.bat
>rd tmp
>cd \
>
>*The End*
>
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>

I think you could use echo y|del *.*>nul instead of messing
around with the for command.












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Stig (venaas@siri.unit.no)