Help of DOS command/s

Hy!

when you use the command "del *.*" it will prompt you for "y/n", and how we can automate this? Say; I created a batch file with this command, when i run this it will stop at this prompt. Is there any way to set this value "y" and proceed it further? rather than keeping it to wait for user input? So I can put this batch file in the startup folder and delete all those file when PC boots.

and... by the way (i know)... most of the dos commands are missing in win-xp, so is there a option to get all the commands run under here?

littleguru said:

del /?

there's a switch to be quiet ...

del /q *.*

littleguru said:

TommyCarlier said:

*snip*

Man, I wanted this to be found out by himself hehe

Sorry 'bout that. You're right.

Raghavendra, please follow LG's advice. Learning to know the commands is a good idea.

littleguru said:

del /?

there's a switch to be quiet ...

thank you... littleguru

i am already done with this...

cd c:\windows\temp
del /S /Q *.*

cd C:\Documents and Settings\RMudugal\Local Settings\Temp
del /S /Q *.*


actually... i was trying to automate the key stroke "y" rather than using a flag. using a flag is like common approach... but key stroking... and automating the input of "y" from the script ... will be cool, I have never tried it before.

TommyCarlier said:

littleguru said:

*snip*

Sorry 'bout that. You're right.

Raghavendra, please follow LG's advice. Learning to know the commands is a good idea.

haha!

Nice. thanks for this support. Learning... which I always do, if you type at the prompt "help del", you will see all the flags can be used.

Raghavendra_Mudugal said:

TommyCarlier said:

*snip*

haha!

Nice. thanks for this support. Learning... which I always do, if you type at the prompt "help del", you will see all the flags can be used.

That works for the commands that are built into cmd.exe.  External commands (like ipconfig) won't give you help that way--  on Windows, the convention is to have a /? option that lists all possible command line options.

On unix/linux/cygwin, most commands will recognize -h or --help to list commands, but you'll be able to get even more information about a command by typing 'man command'.

CannotResolveSymbol said:

Raghavendra_Mudugal said:

*snip*

That works for the commands that are built into cmd.exe.  External commands (like ipconfig) won't give you help that way--  on Windows, the convention is to have a /? option that lists all possible command line options.

On unix/linux/cygwin, most commands will recognize -h or --help to list commands, but you'll be able to get even more information about a command by typing 'man command'.

And, in Powershell, you should be able to get help on any cmdlet by typing Get-Help command which is altogether a much easier solution.

Raghavendra_Mudugal said:

littleguru said:

*snip*

thank you... littleguru

i am already done with this...

cd c:\windows\temp
del /S /Q *.*

cd C:\Documents and Settings\RMudugal\Local Settings\Temp
del /S /Q *.*


actually... i was trying to automate the key stroke "y" rather than using a flag. using a flag is like common approach... but key stroking... and automating the input of "y" from the script ... will be cool, I have never tried it before.

Whenever you need to input something in script but using pipe redirection is not good enough / not applicable, Expect < http://expect.nist.gov/ > comes to my mind.

P.S.: Link creation not work again.

Raghavendra_Mudugal said:

littleguru said:

*snip*

thank you... littleguru

i am already done with this...

cd c:\windows\temp
del /S /Q *.*

cd C:\Documents and Settings\RMudugal\Local Settings\Temp
del /S /Q *.*


actually... i was trying to automate the key stroke "y" rather than using a flag. using a flag is like common approach... but key stroking... and automating the input of "y" from the script ... will be cool, I have never tried it before.

if you want to automate the input of "y" use this:

        echo y | del *.*

NullUserName said:

Raghavendra_Mudugal said:

*snip*

if you want to automate the input of "y" use this:

        echo y | del *.*

But that's the wrong way to solve this problem, so don't do it.

CannotResolveSymbol said:

NullUserName said:

*snip*

But that's the wrong way to solve this problem, so don't do it.

del *.* < whatever.bat
where 'whatever.bat contains "y" (without quotes)

CannotResolveSymbol said:

NullUserName said:

*snip*

But that's the wrong way to solve this problem, so don't do it.

oh well, in your opinion it may be the wrong way to do it, but it's what the customer asked for.

maybe he will see there are many ways to solve this problem.

littleguru said:

del /?

there's a switch to be quiet ...

what's the difference between del and erase?

I usually use erase /f s q

You know that the command "help" C:\>help lists all dos commands and all the commands that accept parameters include a /? flag to display the possible switches and their uses...