On Monday, 16 October 2000 08:00:00 UTC+1, William Allen  wrote:   
   > Terry wrote in message   
   > > Please excuse this silly post, I do not use batch   
   > > programming very often and I forgot how this is done.   
   > >   
   > > I have put the following command in a batch file   
   > >   
   > > del *.*   
   >   
   > It's a really bad idea to remove the /Y prompting from this as it   
   > stands, because if you do, the batch becomes a wipe-directory for   
   > any current directory it's executed in - including deleting   
   > itself if it's there!  If you run DONTDOIT.BAT with this command   
   > as you ask for it, you'll see something like this output:   
   >   
   > C:\WORK\TEST>DONTDOIT   
   > All files in directory will be deleted!   
   > Are you sure (Y/N)?y   
   > Batch file missing   
   >   
   > Oops!  Goodbye batch and everything else.  The feature you want   
   > is ECHO Y | (| =pipe command) to send the (Y)es to the command.   
   > Consider something like:   
   >   
   > ECHO Y | DEL C:\specific\path\name\*.* >NUL   
   >   
   > (the >NUL silences the waring and over-ride y report).  If you   
   > don't do it this way, you'll probably eventually regret not doing   
   > so.   
   >   
   > --   
   > William Allen   
      
   great post thanks again William   
      
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