Commodore PC 10 - The del Command

128 MS-DOS User's Guide
Deleting a file
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The Del Command
Just as you may need to make copies of files, you may also need
to remove old or unnecessary files to clean up your file system.
So when you want to erase a file from a disk, you can use the
MS-DOS del command. Remember, though, that the del command
permanently erases the file. To delete an old sales. doc file from
the disk in drive B, at the MS-DOS prompt you would use the
following command:
del b:sales.doc
IDelete a file ... l. .. named "sales.doc" from the disk in drive B.
Example
Suppose you have an old copy of the sales.doc file that you no
longer need. To delete this file from the disk in the default drive,
you would just follow these steps:
III Make sure that the disk with the sales. doc file is in the default
drive.
rn At the MS-DOS prompt, type the following command:
del sales.doc
rn Press the RETURN key. MS-DOS then deletes the sales.doc file
from
the disk.
Note
• To
MS-DOS, the wildcard name •.• means all files in a direc-
tory,
so be careful when you use this abbreviation in your
commands. For example, if you type the del command, fol-
lowed by
* .• , MS-DOS asks if you want to delete all the files in
the directory; if you then press Y, (for Yes) MS-DOS
permanently deletes the files in the directory.
•
The del command does not work if you type the word
"delete." You can, however, type "erase" instead of "deL"