Making .bat File Need Help Please

[MackAttack]

Hey I've been messing around with trying to make BATCH files...but no luck..

for example if I wanna delete something like say I wanna delete a file which is on my C drive called Songs....how do I do that?...I read some things on the internet and this is what I wrote down:


cls
deltree /y C:\SONGS
cls
EXIT


it won't work??? I don't know why im probably missing something but I don't know what...if anyone could give me some pointers or how to get this to delete would you let me know thanks..or if this isn't wrong what am I doing wrong that wont make this delete that specific folder...

thanks


also after I create this batch file is tehre anyway I can change the icon so it looks like an Image icon??? or like just any other icon??

thanks

 

[office politics]

for example if I wanna delete something like say I wanna delete a file which is on my C drive called Songs....how do I do that

del songs /Q


del - command, delete one or more files
songs - argument, in this case the file to delete
/Q - switch, turn on quiet mode for no prompts

 

[MackAttack]

cool thanks

but don't I have to put like C:/songs???? so it knows where the folder is located?

thanks

 

[office politics]

the code i posted earlier will delete a file named songs

to delete a dir you will need to use rmdir

C:\>rmdir /?
Removes (deletes) a directory.

RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

    /S      Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
            in addition to the directory itself.  Used to remove a directory
            tree.

    /Q      Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S

 

[darkninja]

like say I wanna delete a file which is on

A FILE requires an extention.

EG: My_Resume.doc
where .doc specifies that it is a document used by MS Word

Another EG: (Just in case) MyBatchFile.BAT
where .BAT specifies that it is a Batch file and is to be executed by a command.exe/cmd.exe

Hope that helps!!!

 

[office politics]

A FILE requires an extention.

buzzz. you are incorrect. prime example is a windows hosts file.

 

[darkninja]

I'm assuming its a bunch of songs or a single song he's trying to delete, not host files

 

[office politics]

he can also use wildcards.

* for any single or multiple amount of characters. example: *.* for any file with an extension

? for any single character. example: greenday?? for files like greenday01, greenday02, greenday03