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Hi guys/gals!

As the title says, i need help deleting files within a folder, hope any of you can help.

Heres the statements i tried:

You can use the same command syntax in the DIR command to see a list of files that qualify for your criteria.
You could also turn off the /Q for debugging. You didn't say what your problem was.

It says: "file not found"

You appear to be trying to exclude files by using the - (not). The - is to negate the attribute(s).

to see all files but no folders in a folder

or this works too

shows no directories and all text files beginning with s.

I can't see how to do an exclude based on filename. When you are ready to do the real thing add the /Q and change the DIR to DEL or ERASE
edit: Further checking indicates you can't use a list of files. The filenames after the first are ignored.

So theres no way of deleting everything in a folder except two specific files?

Got a genious idea of how to do this now.

copy/move the two files to the previous directory, remove the folder they were in, then make a new folder and put the files in there

If you want to delete the files "menu.bat" and "firsttime.txt" please use the following code:



If the sign "-:" in a later version than Windows XP have a meaning, then I do not know.

i wanted to exclude them FYI

You could use the ATTRIB command to set all attributes to +A (or anything else that is convenient) then set the two files to something else (+R) and then do a delete based on not R