Deleting files – Epson Apex 20020 User Manual

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You can shorten the RENAME command to REN. To change

the name of a file from HAMMERS to WRENCHES,

therefore, you can type the following and press

Enter:

REN HAMMERS WRENCHES

You can use wildcards to rename groups of files. For example,

to change just the extensions of all files on drive A with the
extension .NEW to .OLD, type the following and press

Enter:

REN A:*.NEW *.OLD

To add the extension .OLD to all files that begin with the same

five characters, MEMOS, but end with one varying character,

type the following and press

Enter:

REN MEMOS? MEMOS?.OLD

This command would rename files such as MEMOS1 and

MEMOS2 to MEMOS1.OLD and MEMOS2,OLD.

See your MS-DOS Reference Manual for more information on
the RENAME command,

Deleting Files

You can delete files you no longer need with the DEL (delete)

command. For example, to delete REPORT.AUG from drive
C, type the following and press

Enter:

DEL

C:REPORT.AUG

To delete the file WRENCHES from drive C, type the
following and press

Enter:

DEL C:WRENCHES

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