On 10 Jan 2002, at 19:46, Stephen Lo wrote:

> I use the following lines in a batch file to delete all files in a
> folder:
>
> @echo off
> Echo Y| del c:\temp\*.* > Nul
>
> IF folder 'temp' is empty a line "file not found" returns. How
> could I eliminate this feedback?
>
> THank you!!
>
> SLo

All the answers given so far will work, but, IMHO, a far neater solution is
as follows:

@echo off
cd c:\temp
for %%l in (*.*) del %%l > nul

In this way, if there are no files in the directory, nothing will be done.

At Neethling
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