new question deleting non-empty subdirectories using DOS?

[The Dancing Peacock]

I had some stuff that I wanted to take out of my windows directory so I could format, but I couldn't copy *.* and get subdirectories. Is there a flag that I can pass to the DOS copy command that will do subdirectories? I tried copy -r *.* c:\mydir but that wouldn't work

 

[Angrymarshmello]

xcopy /s x:\directory

 

[HappyPuppy]

xcopy is your DOS friend.

 

[TractrMan]

u can also use /e to copy all dir's including empty dir's

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I knew that xcopy would allow me to do it, but it wasn't on this boot disk that I was using, so that's why I was wondering if there was a recursive flag.

 

[Kanly]

xxCopy much more powerful than xcopy

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

what about deleting non-empty subdirectories. I tried all variations of rm -rf or del -rf and I couldn't do it. Working in Linux and Irix has made me forget all my DOS commands. I have a finite space in my neural net for command line commands 🙂

 

[IcemanJer]

try "del /s *.*"

 

[IcemanJer]

<< what about deleting non-empty subdirectories. I tried all variations of rm -rf or del -rf and I couldn't do it. Working in Linux and Irix has made me forget all my DOS commands. I have a finite space in my neural net for command line commands 🙂 >>

haha, oh yea, I know what you mean. rm -rf is so potent that it's scary. 😀

 

[spanky]

here

 

[pillage2001]

deltree *directory*

🙂

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

<< deltree *directory*

🙂 >>



I should have remembered that one. Haven't had to mess around in DOS for a while...thanks 🙂

 

[pillage2001]

<<

<< deltree *directory*

🙂 >>



I should have remembered that one. Haven't had to mess around in DOS for a while...thanks 🙂 >>



DOS 0wnz. 🙂