DELTREE is NOT a command!
Posted: 2022-Feb-11, 3:19 am
I am creating a Windows-DOS command reference and reviewed this site to complete it. In the categorized list of Windows CMD commands I see "DELTREE" command that I didn't knew. However, when I open it, I realized that the help page is the same of DEL commmand, but the description includes (DELTREE) enclosed in parens after the /S switch! In my humble opinion this is wrong and the DELTREE entry should be deleted for theses reasons:
1- First, the most obvious one: the DELTREE command does NOT exist!
2- However, if the /S switch of DEL command deserves the creation of a new entry in the list, then the same criteria should be used to create a COPYTREE command because the /S switch of XCOPY!
3- And the same criteria could be used to create a series of new commands as synonyms of real commands that use a certain specific switch.
If you don't agree with this last point, then please explain me why the DEL command is so special that deserve such a treatment over all the rest of commands...
1- First, the most obvious one: the DELTREE command does NOT exist!
2- However, if the /S switch of DEL command deserves the creation of a new entry in the list, then the same criteria should be used to create a COPYTREE command because the /S switch of XCOPY!
3- And the same criteria could be used to create a series of new commands as synonyms of real commands that use a certain specific switch.
If you don't agree with this last point, then please explain me why the DEL command is so special that deserve such a treatment over all the rest of commands...