DOS and the Attrib Command

Today I was working on a problem that seemed to have no easy answer other than using a VB script of a batch file. Yet I found one in lowly DOS commands. 

The issue that I was having we as that I had a large number of directories that I need to change that attibutes on.  The folders all had the hidden and system attribute and I wanted to change it so that they could be seen.

I started working on a batch file to run the attrib -s -h on each folder but was having a probelm that, even though it seemed to process the command correctly, it failed to actually change the attibute.

Then as I was looking at the switches for the attrib command I found the /S /D switches that I never knew about.

So my long batch file that I was creating and testing for 90 minutes was simply replaced by this:

attrib -r -s /S /D

Voila!  Done.

...Just in time to go home for lunch!