MS-DOS command to delete all files except one

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Is there an MS-DOS command that allows me to delete all files except one?

Consider as an example the following files:

a.001  
a.002  
a.003  
a.exe  
a.c

Is there a command to delete all files except a.c?

Best Answer

You can use the for and if commands to accomplish this:

for %i in (*) do if not "%~i" == a.c del "%~i"

This goes through the current directory, and compares each file name to a.c. If it doesn't match, the file is deleted.

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