Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>In , on 10/07/2004 
>   at 05:45 PM, Andy Willis  said:
>
>Andy
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>>I thought it would get rid of the directory read only attributes but 
>>Kris's message here got me interested so I tested it and he is correct.  
>>Apparently my script to delete directories works because the readonly on 
>>a directory doesn't stop it from getting removed.  Here is the short 
>>script to get rid of the files readonly attribute though.
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>>/* Remove readonly attribute recursively */
>>/* Define Rexx Functions */
>>call RxFuncAdd 'SysFileTree', 'RexxUtil', 'SysFileTree'
>>call SysFileTree Arg(1)'\*.*', 'file', 'BSO', '***+*', '***-*'  /* 
>>removes readonly bit */
>>exit
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>     Now, that is something that doesn't blow my mind when
>I look at it and am willing to play with
>
>     Thanks
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If it is in a directory you want to run it from just run it as (in my 
case I named it ro.cmd) "ro ." without the quotes.  This removes even 
the RO on the directories below the one you are in.  I initially tested 
it as "ro doh" (where doh was the directory I had created) and it 
removed them all on everything except the directory "doh" itself.
The initial script I sent I have used for several years to delete entire 
directory trees.  It does a wonderful job, it only asks once if you are 
sure you want to do it and a single press of 'y' makes it all disappear 
('n' will close without doing it, any other input waits for one of the 
other 2).
Andy.
Andy

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