I'm looking for a replacement for DELTREE.EXE under W2K. I've read in
various Usenet posts that RD and/or DEL can be used, but I haven't
found this to be true in my tests.

I'm looking for a command to replace the following:

DELTREE /Y C:\TEMP\

This single command deletes the entire contents of the directory
C:\TEMP (including subdirectories and their contents) _without_
deleting the directory itself.

RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.

Is there a closer fit? (If not, I'll stick with DELTREE, which works
perfectly well in a CMD.EXE shell under W2K and WXP.)

regards, Andy
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rd /s

see rd /?

J


"Andrew Aronoff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm looking for a replacement for DELTREE.EXE under W2K. I've read in
> various Usenet posts that RD and/or DEL can be used, but I haven't
> found this to be true in my tests.
>
> I'm looking for a command to replace the following:
>
> DELTREE /Y C:\TEMP\
>
> This single command deletes the entire contents of the directory
> C:\TEMP (including subdirectories and their contents) _without_
> deleting the directory itself.
>
> RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.
>
> Is there a closer fit? (If not, I'll stick with DELTREE, which works
> perfectly well in a CMD.EXE shell under W2K and WXP.)
>
> regards, Andy
> --
> **********
>
> Please send e-mail to: usenet (dot) post (at) aaronoff (dot) com
>
> To identify everything that starts up with Windows, download
> "Silent Runners.vbs" at www.silentrunners.org
>
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Apologies Andrew, I should have read further....

J


"NayJo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> rd /s
>
> see rd /?
>
> J
>
>
> "Andrew Aronoff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'm looking for a replacement for DELTREE.EXE under W2K. I've read in
> > various Usenet posts that RD and/or DEL can be used, but I haven't
> > found this to be true in my tests.
> >
> > I'm looking for a command to replace the following:
> >
> > DELTREE /Y C:\TEMP\
> >
> > This single command deletes the entire contents of the directory
> > C:\TEMP (including subdirectories and their contents) _without_
> > deleting the directory itself.
> >
> > RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.
> >
> > Is there a closer fit? (If not, I'll stick with DELTREE, which works
> > perfectly well in a CMD.EXE shell under W2K and WXP.)
> >
> > regards, Andy
> > --
> > **********
> >
> > Please send e-mail to: usenet (dot) post (at) aaronoff (dot) com
> >
> > To identify everything that starts up with Windows, download
> > "Silent Runners.vbs" at www.silentrunners.org
> >
> > **********
>
>

In microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin Andrew Aronoff wrote:

> I'm looking for a replacement for DELTREE.EXE under W2K. I've
> read in various Usenet posts that RD and/or DEL can be used, but
> I haven't found this to be true in my tests.
>
> I'm looking for a command to replace the following:
>
> DELTREE /Y C:\TEMP\
>
> This single command deletes the entire contents of the directory
> C:\TEMP (including subdirectories and their contents) _without_
> deleting the directory itself.
>
> RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.

Run that from *within* the c:\temp\ location.

> Is there a closer fit? (If not, I'll stick with DELTREE, which
> works perfectly well in a CMD.EXE shell under W2K and WXP.)
>
> regards, Andy

You could scrip it so that you do the RD function, which will delete the
entire structure as you mentioned, then do an MD Temp to recreate it again.

The only way to remove all directories in C:\Temp is to RD them 1 at a time,
because RD does remove the root directory in the command.

Suggested bacth file
*************************
c:
cd\
RD /S /Q C:\Temp
md temp
*************************



"Andrew Aronoff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm looking for a replacement for DELTREE.EXE under W2K. I've read in
> various Usenet posts that RD and/or DEL can be used, but I haven't
> found this to be true in my tests.
>
> I'm looking for a command to replace the following:
>
> DELTREE /Y C:\TEMP\
>
> This single command deletes the entire contents of the directory
> C:\TEMP (including subdirectories and their contents) _without_
> deleting the directory itself.
>
> RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.
>
> Is there a closer fit? (If not, I'll stick with DELTREE, which works
> perfectly well in a CMD.EXE shell under W2K and WXP.)
>
> regards, Andy
> --
> **********
>
> Please send e-mail to: usenet (dot) post (at) aaronoff (dot) com
>
> To identify everything that starts up with Windows, download
> "Silent Runners.vbs" at www.silentrunners.org
>
> **********

In microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin R Harrison wrote:

> You could scrip it so that you do the RD function, which will
> delete the entire structure as you mentioned, then do an MD Temp
> to recreate it again.
>
> The only way to remove all directories in C:\Temp is to RD them
> 1 at a time, because RD does remove the root directory in the
> command.

Not if you are "in" it.

>
> Suggested bacth file
> *************************
> c:
> cd\
> RD /S /Q C:\Temp
> md temp
> *************************
>
>
>
> "Andrew Aronoff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm looking for a replacement for DELTREE.EXE under W2K. I've
>> read in various Usenet posts that RD and/or DEL can be used,
>> but I haven't found this to be true in my tests.
>>
>> I'm looking for a command to replace the following:
>>
>> DELTREE /Y C:\TEMP\
>>
>> This single command deletes the entire contents of the
>> directory C:\TEMP (including subdirectories and their contents)
>> _without_ deleting the directory itself.
>>
>> RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.
>>
>> Is there a closer fit? (If not, I'll stick with DELTREE, which
>> works perfectly well in a CMD.EXE shell under W2K and WXP.)
>>
>> regards, Andy
>> --
>> **********
>>
>> Please send e-mail to: usenet (dot) post (at) aaronoff
>> (dot) com
>>
>> To identify everything that starts up with Windows,
>> download
>> "Silent Runners.vbs" at www.silentrunners.org
>>
>> **********
>
>
>

"Andrew Aronoff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm looking for a replacement for DELTREE.EXE under W2K. I've read in
> various Usenet posts that RD and/or DEL can be used, but I haven't
> found this to be true in my tests.
>
> I'm looking for a command to replace the following:
>
> DELTREE /Y C:\TEMP\
>
> This single command deletes the entire contents of the directory
> C:\TEMP (including subdirectories and their contents) _without_
> deleting the directory itself.
>
> RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.
>
> Is there a closer fit? (If not, I'll stick with DELTREE, which works
> perfectly well in a CMD.EXE shell under W2K and WXP.)
>
> regards, Andy
> --


How about (as a batch file, obviously)

xcopy /t /e c:\temp c:\somejunkname\
rd /q/s c:\temp
ren c:\somejunkname temp

You could possibly build somejunkname (just in case somejunkname might
already exist) using something like

set yjn=x
:loop
if exist c:\%yjn%* set yjn=%yjn%q&goto loop

which should set %yjn% (Your Junk Name) to "x" followed by as many "q"s as
are required to make the string unique. use %yjn% in place of somejunkname
in the above, clean up yjn using

set yjn=

to remove yjn from the environment, and job done.

HTH

....Bill

>> RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.
>
>Run that from *within* the c:\temp\ location.

Thanks. Didn't know that. That's certainly a very close fit.

regards, Andy
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>> RD /Q /S C:\TEMP deletes the TEMP directory, too.
>
>Run that from *within* the c:\temp\ location.

Oops! I tried it out and it does what's needed, but it throws the
error, "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process." Do you know of any way around that?

regards, Andy
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>How about (as a batch file, obviously)
>
>xcopy /t /e c:\temp c:\somejunkname\
>rd /q/s c:\temp
>ren c:\somejunkname temp

Thanks for the suggestion. I think the /e parameter is best omitted
since it copies the subdirectories, which DELTREE would have deleted.

IAC, I think I'll stick with DELTREE, which is simpler to deploy and
run.

regards, Andy
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