CMD / Batchfile Hell!

Undercoverguy

Okay i've spent about a half hour trying to sort this and i cant, hopefully somone on here can help.

I'm writing a batch file that when run will delete everything from the "My Music" folder. Easier said than done for some reason.

The command i'm using is he rmdir command. The problem is this that i dont appear to be able to put spaces in the command. For example if i create a called in C: called "Pretend Music" and then run the command:

"rmdir/s C:\prented music"

It wont work, where if i change the folder name to like "OnWord" and then run "rmdir/s C:\OneWord" it works grand.

Any idea how i run the command with spaces in it as changing the "My Music" folder name isnt an option.

Cheers Guys!!

Snowbat

Enclose the drive,path,filename in doublequotes:

rmdir/s "C:\prented music"

Karoma

folders/files with spaces in names should be enclosed in quotes.
ex: rmdir "My Music"

Otherwise, use the shortname. (dir /x will tell what this is. ex: MYMUSI~1 [Note: total short file name = 8chars])

Hobbes

rmdir? what year is this

rd /S/Q "C:\My Music"
md "C:\My Music"

Undercoverguy

Okay two small problems.

"rm" isnt a valid command.

Also i'm getting access denied to My Music when i try to delete.

Any ideas anyone?

Like i said i'm trying to create a catch file that when runs deletes everything in the "My Music" folder.

The dir for this will be "C:\Documents and Settings\PC\My Documents\My Music"

Any help would be great,

Cheers Guys

Undercoverguy

Ah Change of plan....

It's healed!! Cheers guys!

One question tho for future reference, if there a command that can delete files and folders. I know files can be deleted with "del/q C:\example\*.*" but is there a similar command for folders too?

Hobbes

should be rd not rm.

Also you won't be able to nuke the directory if anything has the directory open or a file open in that area.