MSDOS Help

[Ripley]

Hi.

I do not realy program in ms dos, but I need to take away the read only attribues for some files in a given directory, as currently only administrators on my network can access them. The read only attributes can only be removed in DOS with the command:

attrib <directory>\<filename>

I want to create an itteration statement to loop through all files and folders within a given directory and change the attrbutes accordingly.

Any help appriciated. Thanks.

 

[RainLover]

Do you have to do this in DOS.

Why not simple change the Read Only in the Folder Properties. I believe this will change the Properties of all the Files within the Folder.

 

[georgedwilkinson]

If this is something that must be done on a regular basis, you could just do attrib on *.* (inside or outside a batch file). You can also do a for loop in a DOS batch file and run the command there (if there are other actions you need to perform).

 

[jkl0]

Are you doing this for all of the files in a particular directory?

attrib <directory>\*.* -r

or

If there is something common about all of the file names that you want to change

attrib <directory>\*this*.* -r

This will change any file with the word this contained in the file name or if an extention name such as a text file

attrib <directory>\*.txt -r

 

[CHSBK]

Hi

Following on from the previous post, you can remove the attribute from all files in the directory and all sub-directories by using:

attrib -r *.* /s

This can be used inside a batch file or at the command prompt.

 

[bulrush]

attrib <directory>\*this*.* -r

Please note, when dealing with filenames, any string with an asterisk on both sides of it, does not work properly in any version of MS-DOS. In fact, this syntax does not work on any version of DOS or unix I have ever used.

In theory it is possible, in practice it is not.