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- If you are not sure what files will be matched by some combination of
- wildcards, try doing a DIR /W with that combination before entering the DEL
- command.
-
- The contents of a file are still on the disk or diskette after being deleted,
- but the filename is removed from the directory, so there is no simple way to
- get to it. To really destroy the contents of a file AND delete it requires
- more than just a DEL command. (See the EXAMPLES topic.)
-
- To keep a filename but lose the contents, requires a different command. (See
- the EXAMPLES topic).
-
- If a "bad" filename (one with characters that cannot be readily entered from
- the keyboard) somehow gets created, and you cannot delete it explicitly, use
- ? to match the "bad" part of the filename. For example, the file OOPS*.TXT
- could be deleted by the command
-
- DEL OOPS???.TXT.