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Re: DOS Batch Programming

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From: Timo Salmi LASK
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 1990 21:51
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In article <1990Jun24.043414.24256@caen.engin.umich.edu> mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes:
>
>Hi.  I would like to know if the following can be done?
>I have a batch file that does a DEL subdirectory
>where subdirectory is some temporary directory.  The problem is
>DOS asks the question about "All files will be deleted Are you
>sure? "

   There are a couple of ways to do this, the most elegant being
echo y | del YourSub\*.* > nul, as pointed out in this newsgroup by
several postings.  (There have also been a couple of clearly
incorrect solutions suggested). 
   If you want to delete the files AND the subdirectory, that can be
done as well.  For how, I shall refer you to /pc/ts/tsbat21.arc,
which has quite a number of batch files with accumulated batch
programming tricks in them.  Available by anonymous ftp from
chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland. 
   If you need prerecoded information about chyde.uwasa.fi ftp, just
send me an email request. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: DOS Batch Programming
Keywords: DOS Batch DELETE
Message-ID: <1990Jun25.215129.24826@uwasa.fi>
Date: 25 Jun 90 21:51:29 GMT
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