When I give the following command from the DOS prompt, it works:
erase c:\garbage\*.* /s /q
When I repeat the self-same command with a RUN command, nothing gets erased.
Since any possible error message disappears too fast, I created a batch file, with the following contents:
erase c:\garbage\*.* /s /q
pause
When I execute this with the RUN command, I an error message "Invalid modifier - /s". (Translated from Spanish)
What is going on? Does the RUN command use a different version of the command interpreter?
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