<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>d (Delete) command</TITLE> <LINK href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>d (Delete) command</H1> <P>Deletes files from archive.</P> <H4>Example</H4> <PRE class="example"> 7z d archive.zip *.bak -r </PRE> <P>deletes <SPAN class="filename">*.bak</SPAN> files from archive <SPAN class="filename">archive.zip</SPAN>.</P> <H4>Notes</H4> <P>7-Zip doesn't uses the system wildcard parser. 7-Zip doesn't follow the archaic rule by which *.* means any file. 7-Zip treats *.* as matching the name of any file that has an extension. To process all files, you must use a * wildcard.</P> <H4>Switches that can be used with this command</H4> <P> <A href="../switches/include.htm">-i (Include)</A><BR> <A href="../switches/method.htm">-m (Method)</A><BR> <A href="../switches/password.htm">-p (Set Password)</A><BR> <A href="../switches/recurse.htm">-r (Recurse)</A><BR> <A href="../switches/update.htm">-u (Update)</A><BR> <A href="../switches/working_dir.htm">-w (Working Dir)</A><BR> <A href="../switches/exclude.htm">-x (Exclude)</A> </P> <H4>See also</H4> <P> <B>Commands:</B> <A href="add.htm">a (Add)</A>, <A href="update.htm">u (Update)</A> </P> <P> <B>Switches:</B> <A href="../switches/update.htm">-u (Update)</A> </P> </BODY> </HTML>