If you are going to run it in a perl script. Cmd /c will run the rd /s /q and terminate. It is not needed.
-----Original Message----- From: John Deretich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:55 PM To: Roy Sprague Cc: Perl-Win32-Admin-Request (E-mail) Subject: RE: removing nonempty directories Hi Roy, I was just wondering. I know rd is remove directory with a /s and a /q option, but what is cmd /c? thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Roy Sprague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:39 AM To: 'John Deretich'; Perl-Win32-Admin-Request (E-mail) Subject: RE: removing nonempty directories `cmd /c rd /s /q j:\\test\\test1`; -----Original Message----- From: John Deretich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:56 PM To: Perl-Win32-Admin-Request (E-mail) Subject: removing nonempty directories Hello, I just wanted to find out if anyone knows how to remove a non empty directory. Say for example, J:\test\test1..... just remove only test1 and any subdirectories below it, not the entire contents of the J: Drive. thanks, John _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
