On 03 Jan 05  18:05:00, Paul Quinn got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: A Dangerous Command

 DC> But, how do you automatically provide a "Y" and "Enter"
 DC> for calling up a "  dele *.*  " ?
 
 PQ> :)  And, now for something different... try using DELTREE instead.  I
 PQ> have two ideas in my captures from over the years, both untried though
 PQ> (I have better ways of destroying files than using BATch files).  Have
 PQ> a squiz at this lot: 

LOL!  

 PQ> content or  attribute.  Don't want to be  asked for confirmation?   Use
 PQ> "DELTREE /Y filename.ext"  for  a  file  and 
"DELTREE /Y dirname" for

I didn't even know of that command, but I did find it in the MSDOS 
Help File.   It sounds like it will do exactly what I want it to do!  

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!  


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