Oooh, that's pretty neat. I was under the same impression as Andrew, that DEL didn't do the same thing as rm -rf ... Thanks, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Adam Zey [mailto:azey@xxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:35 PM To: Andrew Kreps Cc: PHP General Mail List Subject: Re: Fwd: Recurs Directory Delete Andrew Kreps wrote: > [forwarding my response to the list, as the reply function didn't quite > work] > > > Actually, that's not true. 'rm -rf' removes all files, directories > and subdirectories. Microsoft's del has no analogy to that (although > there was a deltree command in older versions of DOS). You still have > to manually (or programmatically) iterate through the directory > structure and run 'del *.*' and then 'rd directory' in every single > subdirectory to achieve the same result that the single command 'rm > -rf' gives you on UNIX-like systems. > > On 7/14/06, Adam Zey <azey@xxxxxx> wrote: >> So? Windows has this thing called the "del" command that does the same >> thing as "rm". >> >> Regards, Adam. >> Sure it does. I logged into a Win2K box and got help for rmdir/rd: 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 It seems like "rmdir /S /Q <directory>" is exactly identical to "rm -rf <directory>". It deletes a directory tree (the -r), and doesn't prompt or display anything (the -f). So, yes, this *CAN* be done on Windows. Sorry if I was wrong about del originally, but my point stands, Windows is not entirely crippled when it comes to the shell :) Regards, Adam. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
