Hello, I'm making a batch command to delete all the files in my "recent files" folder. At first I set it up so that it would create a .txt file in there, then delete all the files in there, so that I wouldn't get an error message when I ran it. Here is what I had...

@echo off
echo.>"C:\Documents and Settings\James\Recent\"file.txt
del /q "C:\Documents and Settings\James\Recent\*.*"
ECHO Arg, I'm getting Tired Of Making These!
ECHO.
PAUSE

What I'd like to do is have a command that will only tell it to delete the files there is one exist. So I tried the following command line in a different batch command.

@echo off
if exist "C:\Documents and Settings\James\Recent\*.*" del /q "C:\Documents and Settings\James\Recent\*.*"
echo hi everyone
echo.
PAUSE

I get most of my command lines from friends and random internet people, so I can't really figure out what to change myself. I tried a few variations but I haven't been getting anywhere...

Moving to Windows & DOS.

Joeyg! it worked, but now it asks me if I'm sure if I want to delete the file (y/n).... Is there a way to disable this from popping up? so it just deletes the files without confirmation?

I am guessing that the files are marked read-only if you are getting a prompt to make sure you want to delete. Some of the delete options are:

/P to confirm (prompt) delete
/F to force delete read-only files
/Q quiet mode, do not confirm with wildcards

Take a look at the following website that has a fairly extensive description for most DOS commands --
MS-DOS help and commands

Hi everyone!
Special thanks to:joeyg
I changed the command from...

@echo off
if exist "C:\Documents and Settings\James\Recent\*.*" del /q "C:\Documents and Settings\James\Recent\*.*"
echo hi everyone
echo.
PAUSE

to...

@echo off
if exist "C:\Documents and Settings\James\Recent\*.*" del "C:\Documents and Settings\James\Recent\*.*" /Q
echo hi everyone
echo.
PAUSE

And it workes perfectly! thank-you