How would I DEL *.* without a prompt? I have no DELTREE command, I'm using MS-DOS 5.00.

del *.* /y >nul

This won't delete the subdirectories.

Nope, doesn't work.

Try this:

choice /n /t:y,1|del *.*>nul

be careful it will delete every file in the current directory without prompting.

hopes this helps :)

Looked promising but it didn't work :(

It works with MS-DOS Version 7 may be it wont work with MS-DOS 5. Sorry. Could you please tell me what is the output of the following code under MS-DOS version 5

choice /n /t:y,1|del *.*

thanx

You can try this:
echo y|del *.* >nul

Or try this, I don't know if this work with the del command, but it works with format and fdisk commands:
Type this: echo y >c:\agree.txt
Then: del *.* nul

It can be, if you have a DOS version in another language that the Y must be replaced by another character, like J in my country.

I hope one of these things can help you further.

del *.???

Sorry Sidney that doesn't work either.

del will erase all ? combinations except
any combination that evaluates to a full
8.3 wild card. 7? ok, 8? not ok.

Tested on Toshiba DOS 5.0

This is quite easy to do using the "<" left arrow pipe command and should work in most versions of Dos. First use a basic text editor and create a text file that contains only the character "Y" and no formatting characters at all. Save the file (for example) as "Y.DAT". Copy it (again for example) to the c:\dos directory.

Now when you want to delete *.* in any dir without getting the Yes/No prompt, you just type:

del *.* Voila! :)

(this probably doesn't work in Dos-unfriendly XP and Win2000/NT but should work in all other versions of Dos)

me again. seems this forum doesn't handle the "<" character correctly. The last part above should have been:

DEL *.* okay, i was right. using the preview I can see there is some problem or bug that stopped the above syntax showing correct in my first post. by putting a " at the beginning and end of the line, it now shows okay. (I hope). So just remove the 2x " at the beginning and end. ...

AAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! :(

I give up. I can type out what I want and it previews okay, but I CANNOT get the final post to show what I'm typing.

If the original poster wants me to email him, contact me at dennis_terry@mailcity.com

To repeat, i give up. Mod, please sort this out

I'm still here and having one more try. Try this syntax:

del *.* < c:\dos\y.dat

I've just put a space between the "<" and the "c" and I think that may work. can't check till I post, so here goes ....

Yippee!!!!!!!!! Synax correct.

This works perfectly as well:

COPY %1 %2 >NUL
FOR %%A IN (%1) DO DEL %%A

how do i delete a file that is either too long or invalid