Del (command)

In computing,   (or  ) is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) such as,  , 4DOS, NDOS, 4OS2, 4NT and Windows PowerShell. It is used to delete one or more files or directories from a file system.

Implementations
The command is available for various operating systems including DOS, Microware OS-9, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS. It is analogous to the Unix  command and to the Stratus OpenVOS   and  commands.

DEC RT-11, OS/8, RSX-11, and OpenVMS also provide the  command which can be contracted to. AmigaDOS and TSC FLEX provide a  command as well.

The  command is supported by Tim Paterson's SCP 86-DOS. On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. It is also available in the open-source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox.

Datalight ROM-DOS also includes an implementation of the del and erase commands.

While Digital Research DR-DOS supports  and   as well, it also supports the shorthand form , which derived from CP/M. In addition to this, the DR-DOS command processor also supports /. These are shorthand forms for the / /  command with an assumed   parameter (for 'Query') given as well.

THEOS/OASIS and FlexOS provide only the  command.

In PowerShell,  and   are predefined command aliases for the   cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose.