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Number   :  1716
Date     :  2002-03-04
Author   :  Peter Mokover
Subject  :  Delete Files
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I am trying to write an XXCOPY command line that will not copy anything. It 
will just delete certain files on the source. I want to delete all *.bak files in all 
subdirectories of the directory c:\agent. I want to delete files only from the 
subdirectories, not from the c:\agent folder itself. Here's what I came up with:

xxcopy "c:\agent\?*\*.bak" /RS

It seems to work BUT when it runs I get the following message for each of the 
subdirectories: RmDir Failed

What is causing that message? When I read the documentation about the 
/RS switch, it does not say anything about removing directories (which is good 
because I don't want to remove any directories).

What am I missing?

Peter