jasona.work (7/28/2016)

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TomThomson (7/28/2016)

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jasona.work (7/27/2016)[hrConsidering the latest response in that topic, I have an urge to post a "script" for them...

@echo off

c:

cddel * /s/q

But I won't...

They might try to run it...

Your urge is a bit gentle and mild. Why not

@echo off

cd c:c:

del * /f /s /q /a RHISAL *.*

Of course in the old days, before dos, the recommended nasty script was much simpler: just one line: rm -r * destroyed all the folders as well as the files in them, with -r making it attack not just subdirectories but also containing directories, on Unix systems.

I think your delete might toss an error, mostly because you left my "*" in place. But yours would get rather more files, I think we'd both succeed in trashing their OS quite thoroughly...

(I wanted to put hehe here, but that would be wrong)

Quite a few years ago, I saw an article on someone who tested both the classic "format c:", "rm -rf *", and "del * /s/q" against a WinXP and Linux system.

Format C: won't work. Try it!

rm -rf * cheerfully chugged along, while the OS kept running. When he rebooted, no OS.

Del * /s/q did the same thing rm did, but when he rebooted, WinXP (albeit very, very, very broken) came up.