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chanh@athena.mit.edu (Chanh N. Vuong) 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 *.*.
>>
>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 \

This one's easier to follow:

@echo off
cd \temp
attrib *.* -r > nul
attrib gest.bat +r > nul
echo y | del *.* > nul
attrib gest.bat -r > nul
cd \

It just sets gest.bat to Read-Only, and erases everything else.  (The
first attrib command makes sure there's no other RO files out there..) 
If you're in DOS 5.0, you can also kill Hidden/System files easily like
this...


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