Reference number: CH000010
Deleting files in MS-DOS without a prompt.
Issue:Deleting files in MS-DOS without a prompt.
Cause:
To help prevent files from becoming
accidentally deleted Microsoft will warn you before deleting files
or folders.
Solution:By default Microsoft Windows will not prompt a user or give a
user a prompt or warning when deleting files on a computer using the
del command. However, when attempting to
delete a directory using the deltree or rmdir command on a directory
that is not empty you will receive a warning and/or error message
about deleting the directory.
To suppress the prompting use the
deltree command and add
the tag /y. Here is an example of how the whole command would look,
deltree
c:\windows\temp\*.* /y However, this does not work in all versions of Windows and
or DOS.
If this command does not work we would recommend that you create a
batch file with the below command in the
batch file.
echo y | del %1\*.*
Once created, you can type the name of the
batch file then the name of the directory that you wish to delete.
Microsoft Windows
2000 and Windows XP users
Users who wish to delete a directory
containing files in a MS-DOS session running under Microsoft Windows
2000 or Windows XP can also use the rmdir
or rd command with the /S option.
Please remember that when you delete files
or directories from the computer they are permanently removed, so
be careful! Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows
NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and later versions of Windows users
deleting files through MS-DOS should realize that all deleted files
will not be sent to the recycle
bin.
Other users using
MS-DOS through Windows
Users running MS-DOS through later
versions of Microsoft Windows can also utilize the
erase
command to delete files without a prompt. Microsoft
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, and later versions of Windows users deleting files
through MS-DOS should realize that all deleted files will not be
sent to the recycle bin.
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