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by newbieasking
05 Jan 2018 05:18
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Delete many files, need help for creating
Replies: 8
Views: 5483

Re: Delete many files, need help for creating

Dont worry. Yesterday we filled a USB Stick with fake files and we did start experiencing. Delete is dangerous. So You can see we are beginners so some quetions more: 1 Can we ask delete all files with fmt in the directory filesjanuary and tell me how many files did You delete? 2 Tell me also how mu...
by newbieasking
04 Jan 2018 09:18
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Delete many files, need help for creating
Replies: 8
Views: 5483

Re: Delete many files, need help for creating

I ask
because I dont wanna delete good files.
Delete is delete and we did delete so many good files by bad concentration.
So the task ist fine.
Thank You.
by newbieasking
04 Jan 2018 08:56
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Delete many files, need help for creating
Replies: 8
Views: 5483

Re: Delete many files, need help for creating

Another problem, thank You again. del /f /s /q /a *.fmt So I think its possible to do something like: del /f /s /q /a c:\dir1/dir2/dir3/*.fmt so del should see only the directory c:\dir1/dir2/dir3 and del is ignoring the rest of the HD. Is that task ok: del /f /s /q /a c:\dir1/dir2/dir3/*.fmt Sorry ...
by newbieasking
04 Jan 2018 08:01
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Delete many files, need help for creating
Replies: 8
Views: 5483

Re: Delete many files, need help for creating

Thank You for Your friendly help. * del /f /s /q /a *.fmt *.bak * SO del /s does really work? I ll try. Thank You. We use WIN XP but BATCH we call DOS cause its looking like DOS. * Do You know an URL, were there is a batch workshop for learning to use batch? * delims Thank You for this task. We ll s...
by newbieasking
03 Jan 2018 03:46
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Delete many files, need help for creating
Replies: 8
Views: 5483

Delete many files, need help for creating

I wanna delete many files for cleaning the hd. But win does only offer del and then I must jump to every directory and I wanna delete some thousands files. The files are dirt like *.fmt *.bak or 1.gif with one kb and this came from downloading. So how can I write a batch file for dos which is deleti...