Deleting Files - Epson 20 User Manual

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
REN B:*.NEW *.OLD
rename all files that begin with the same five characters
To
"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
DEL B:REPORT.AUG
To delete the file WRENCHES from drive B, type the following and
press
Enter:
DEL B:WRENCHES
can use wildcards to delete groups of files. For example, to delete
You
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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