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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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	|  |\/\/\/|       Chanh N. Vuong (aka Cee Vee)         |
	|  |      |       chanh@athena.mit.edu                 | 
	|  | (o)(o)       (617)225-6302 or x5-6302             | 
	|  C     _)                                            |
	|  | ,___|        Hey, like don't eat a cow, man!      |
	|  |   / ----------------------------------------------+
	| /____\     VegieBart Inc., copyright 1991.

In article <92225.09262732BFPQ3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>, Nathan Owen <32BFPQ3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
) Organization: Central Michigan University
) Date: Wednesday, 12 Aug 1992 09:26:27 EDT
) From: Nathan Owen <32BFPQ3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
) Subject: Need DOS batch help!
) 
) 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 *.*.
) 

If your using 4DOS/NDOS you can use:

except (C:\233Temp\gest.bat) del /q/y c:\233Temp\*.*

/y forces Y (i.e. or are not asked if your sure)
/q means quite mode (i.e. no info on files being deleted)

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This might be cheating, and I'm doing it from the top of my head, but...

DEL_TEMP.BAT:
@ECHO OFF
c:
cd \TEMP
ATTRIB +r GEST.BAT
ECHO Y | DEL *.*
ATTRIB -r GEST.BAT
cd \

Note that this assumes ATTRIB is in the path, and that the "ECHO" line
works...I'm pretty sure it does.

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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 *.*.
> 
> 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 \

I'd add a bit of error checking to make sure the tmp dir is actually
created.  e.g.

if not exist tmp\nul goto :md_failed

(With some versions of DOS you may have to put a colon after the device
name - "nul:" - I'm getting a bit hazy on this.)

(NOTE:  The "if exist" test above won't work on at least some NetWare
drives.  Regardless of how ficticious a directory name you give, you
will be told that the file exists.  You also can't use this type of test
on a NetWare drive to tell if you have read or filescan access to a dir
- if you test for the existence of any of the DOS device psuedo files
regardless of the directory structure and your access rights, "if exist"
returns true.  I've never seen this "feature" mentioned anywhere before
- surely I'm not the first to discover it!)

Also check that gest.bat copied OK before deleting all the files in the
\temp dir and again before deleting the version in tmp.  There are other
checks you could make as well - depends on how bomb-proof you want to
make it and on who will be using it.

Nathan's claim that you won't be able to use "del *.*" is incorrect. 
Try the following instead of Chanh Vuong's elegant "for..." line:

echo y >y.dat
del *.* <y.dat >nul

From some experience I'd expect the above to execute faster if more than
3 or 4 files are being deleted.

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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*
>
>	+------------------------------------------------------+
>	|  |\/\/\/|       Chanh N. Vuong (aka Cee Vee)         |
>	|  |      |       chanh@athena.mit.edu                 | 
>	|  | (o)(o)       (617)225-6302 or x5-6302             | 
>	|  C     _)                                            |
>	|  | ,___|        Hey, like don't eat a cow, man!      |
>	|  |   / ----------------------------------------------+
>	| /____\     VegieBart Inc., copyright 1991.
>

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












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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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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 *.*.
>
>Here goes:
[suggested batch file deleted]

It'd be a lot easier to just change the attribute of gest.bat to read-only.
Use attrib +r gest.bat or something like that.  If you don't have
DOS Help!, you need it.

swehtam bob

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 *.*.
>

If you get, by anonymous ftp to wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:

	"PD1:<MSDOS.PCMAG>VOL5N09.ARC",1,10219,8,900219,"PC Magazine: NO"

You can then write a batch file thus:

echo off		("@echo off" for DOS 3.30+)
c:
cd \233temp
echo y | no gest.bat del *.* > nul
cd \

What NO does, BTW, is to flag all files matching its first argument as
hidden, then execute the remainder of its command tail as a new command line.

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