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Solve : The old format 8.3 ...?

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A curiosity:

In order to ERASE all documents finished in letter c, it's possible to be made:

del *.*c

but ¡be careful! also delete the archives that have letter c in 3 position:

X:\>dir
El volumen de la unidad X es WINDOWS
El número de serie del volumen es: E04F-EDB2

Directorio de X:\

08/01/2006 21:12 <DIR> .
08/01/2006 21:12 <DIR> ..
03/02/2006 10:29 73 prueba.bat
27/09/2005 13:55 2.023 interfaz_de_usuario.gif
07/02/2006 15:41 <DIR> olds
20/12/2005 16:35 16.074 carta.doc
07/02/2006 15:40 45.056 basura.doc
07/02/2006 15:39 43.520 mw.doc
07/02/2006 15:37 392 top.secret <== This document will be deleted
07/02/2006 15:48 3.632 pingo.c
7 archivos 110.770 bytes
3 DIRS 1.178.927.104 bytes libres

The command del *.*c will delete any file that has the letter "c" ending in the extension. Try using del *.??c to delete files with "c" in the third posiiton of the extension where the extension is three CHARACTERS. You can EXTEND this with del *.??c* which will delete any file that has a "c" in the third position of the extension. Using wildcards, while helpful, can lead to unexpected results.


Good luck. 8-)



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