Epson 20, 386 Deleting Files, You, DEL A:, DEL B:WRENCHES, DEL B:REPORT.AUG, REN B:*.NEW *.OLD, REN MEMOS? MEMOS?.OLD

You can use wildcards to rename groups of files. For example, to change just the extensions of all files on drive B with the extension

.NEW to .OLD, type the following and press Enter:

REN B:*.NEW *.OLD

To rename all files that begin with the same five characters “MEMOS” but end with one varying character, type the following and press Enter:

REN MEMOS? MEMOS?.OLD

See your MS-DOS Reference Manual for more information on the RENAME command.

Deleting Files

You can delete files you no longer need with the DEL (delete) command. For example, to delete REPORT.AUG from drive B, type the following and press Enter:

DEL B:REPORT.AUG

To delete the file WRENCHES from drive B, type the following and press Enter:

DEL B:WRENCHES

You can use wildcards to delete groups of files. For example, to delete all files on the diskette in drive A, you could type the following and press Enter:

DEL A:*.*

Because deleting all files is a somewhat drastic operation, MS-DOS prompts you to confirm your intentions when you use the *.* wildcard combination with the DEL command.

A synonym for DEL is ERASE. Thus, you could substitute ERASE for DEL in any of the preceding examples.

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