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jpints14
jpints14

Reputation: 1371

How to perform reverse of relative path in DOS?

I want to delete some files from a folder, so I do this:

DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\name\My Documents\application\v10-105 CODE\v10-105 CODE\app\bin\Release\ExSimSeqNum-*.txt"

However, the folder "v10-105 CODE" changes very often (as version gets incremented).

In ../application/, there is only one folder and in that single folder, there are two folders. Is there a way to generalize going down this path? I tried this:

DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\name\My Documents\application\v*\v*\app\bin\Release\ExSimSeqNum-*.txt"

but I get "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 231

Answers (1)

Simon Wang
Simon Wang

Reputation: 2963

try this:

C:
CD "C:\Documents and Settings\name\My Documents\application"
CD v*\v*
DEL app\bin\Release\ExSimSeqNum-*.txt

The reason is do not use * inside quote to match multiple characters, it won't work

Upvotes: 2

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