No error messages for RD /S ?

[Charles Dye]

It appears that RD with the /S option does not show error messages when an error occurs. RD without /S does display error messages; so does a DEL command equivalent to RD /S:


C:\>ver

TCC 9.02.147 Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

C:\>rd /s Foo\
C:\Foo\* : Are you sure (Y/N)? Y

C:\>rd /s Foo\
C:\Foo\* : Are you sure (Y/N)? Y

C:\>rd Foo\
TCC: (Sys) The directory is not empty.
"C:\Foo"

C:\>del /s /x /z Foo\*
C:\Foo\* : Are you sure (Y/N)? Y
Deleting C:\Foo\LockedFile.exe
TCC: (Sys) Access is denied.
"C:\Foo\LockedFile.exe"
TCC: (Sys) The directory is not empty.
"C:\Foo"
0 files deleted

C:\>
(Aha! <code> tags prevent the forum software from stripping leading/trailing spaces from copied text!)

[samintz]

(Aha! <code> tags prevent the forum software from stripping leading/trailing spaces from copied text!)

FWIW - the email I received did not contain the word \<code\> in the text. I see "Aha! tags..."

The tags Charles is referring to are \[code\] and \[/code\]. I tried to escape the leading and trailing brackets in the previous sentence. So I don't know if it worked.

-Scott

[Charles Dye]

In build 149, it gives a "directory is not empty" error. Which is reasonable, and alerts the user that an error has occurred. It would be nice to see the name of the file which could not be deleted, if that wouldn't require major changes to DEL / RMDIR.

[rconn]

Charles Dye wrote:

> In build 149, it gives a "directory is not empty" error. Which is
> reasonable, and alerts the user that an error has occurred. It would be
> nice to see the name of the file which could not be deleted, if that
> wouldn't require major changes to DEL / RMDIR.


It would require major changes to RD. I'll put it on the suggestion
list for v10.

Rex Conn
JP Software

[Charles Dye]

In that case, consider it unsuggested....