DEL /Q not fixed

[vefatica]

The file name is lower case Greek "pi".

v:\> del /q %@char[960]
V:\π : Are you sure (Y/N)? N

Rex, aren't you going to fix this?

 

[rconn]

Not reproducible here.

 

[vefatica]

Not reproducible here.

Do you have a file with that name. Get one with "ECHO foo > %@CHAR[960]".

Charles Dye reproduced it right away and commented:

You get that odd prompt anytime you specify a filename consisting entirely of characters >= 256

I checked a little and that comment seems to be true.

 

[Charles Dye]

v:\> del /q %@char[960]
V:\π : Are you sure (Y/N)? N

/Q doesn't seem to have anything to do with it; you get the same prompt without it. DEL is acting as if /P had been specified, though it wasn't.

 

[vefatica]

/Q doesn't seem to have anything to do with it; you get the same prompt without it. DEL is acting as if /P had been specified, though it wasn't.

Quite right!

v:\> dir /k /m [EMAIL]%@char[/EMAIL][960]
 3/19/2012  23:06               5  π
v:\> del [EMAIL]%@char[/EMAIL][960]
V:\π : Are you sure (Y/N)? N
     0 files deleted

 

[vefatica]

Quite right!

v:\> dir /k /m [EMAIL]%@char[/EMAIL][960]
3/19/2012  23:06              5  π
v:\> del [EMAIL]%@char[/EMAIL][960]
V:\π : Are you sure (Y/N)? N
    0 files deleted

That's a new one! I didn't put those EMAIL tags there. In fact I typed the CODE tags manually.

 

[Charles Dye]

DEL is acting as if /P had been specified, though it wasn't.

After a closer look, it isn't the /P prompt. It's the delete-all-files-in-a-directory prompt, the one that /Q is supposed to suppress. Only (1) the file named isn't a directory, and (2) /Q doesn't suppress it.

 

[Charles Dye]

I can no longer reproduce this behavior in build 55.