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What is its use in unix and its possible implementation in dos?

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It is NOT DOS. cmd.exe is a native Windows application. – grawity Aug 12 '09 at 9:13
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Maybe the OP still uses DOS. There definitely were questions specific to DOS. – Joey Aug 12 '09 at 9:32
Well, it was originally tagged "windows". – grawity Aug 12 '09 at 12:48
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It just forces a file to be deleted, even if it's read-only.

del /f filename

is the rough equivalent in Windows command shells.

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Much as I hate voting up Jon, he's exactly right. +1. – paxdiablo Aug 12 '09 at 6:13
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Every vote you get, brings you 10 points closer to integer overflow :-D – derobert Aug 12 '09 at 6:49
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Luckily one can safely upvote him here, as he isn't nearly close to overflowing :-) – Joey Aug 12 '09 at 9:33
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If you feel comfortable with UNIX commands, you can use a UNIX command shell simulator in windows, the one that I use is called CYGWIN:

http://www.cygwin.com/

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rm -f forces the delete of a file. IF you need to delete everything in a specific folder, including folders withing folders, you would need to do rm -rf in unix.

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