Hi, > If I want to delete/overwrite files from a script(batch), then either way, > it will interogate me:"are you sure?y/n"; > but I want the script to run unattended; is there a way to make it fully > 'hands free'?, possibly with a redirection > away from the keyboard, or some such thing?
I think DELTREE has a way for this, maybe some /Y option. > PS: when deleting a file, there > is usually a 'deleted copy' of it > that can be 'undeleted', but when overwriting a file, is the original > definately destroyed? In theory, yes. In practice, if your disk is in fact a flash storage (USB stick etc) then load balancing in the hardware might mean that the overwriting data is written to a fresh sector and the old sector is just put back into some pool and not actually over- written with the data you use to overwrite... This problem is independent of which filesystem and which operating system you use. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
