xcopy Option?

[Gene E. Bloch]

Probably because the short name of foo.html is FOO~1.HTM

Powershell's Remove-Item (alias DEL) is another alternative.

I just looked at the 8.3 names. You're right, but IMO Microsoft isn't

 

[Bill Blanton]

I just looked at the 8.3 names. You're right, but IMO Microsoft isn't

Backward compatibility rears it ugly head again.. the beast cannot die.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Backward compatibility rears it ugly head again.. the beast cannot die.

I'm not so sure...backwards /incompatibility/ strikes me as a better
name

 

[Daniel47]

It was definitely new to me as well, and it sucks

My experimentation revealed not only that cmd acts the way Wirchenko
said, but even putting the action into a loop to act on individual files
doesn't help.

I went a bit further and discovered the underlying problem is that dir
treats .htm and html as the same.

One wonders if it would treat "*.htm " and "*.htm" the same...i,e,
defining a space as part of the search criteria??

*.html would certainly be found under the second search, but, I'm
thinking, not under the first search!!

Daniel

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

One wonders if it would treat "*.htm " and "*.htm" the same...i,e,
defining a space as part of the search criteria??

*.html would certainly be found under the second search, but, I'm
thinking, not under the first search!!

Daniel

You could have tried it yourself.

You would have learned that the space is ignored.

 

[Daniel47]

You could have tried it yourself.

You would have learned that the space is ignored.

Oh!! O.K.!!

Daniel