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Number   :  4782
Date     :  2003-06-10
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Deleting unneeded files
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> 
> I knew Garry's first step would be DIR /od/b (or its
> variation). I was hoping to learn some "pure"
> batch technique which extracts the last (or first)
> line of the DIR-output and feed to a del command
> (which LMOD took care of).

It can be done in pure dos batch but the solutions I've
seen usually involve creating 'on-the-fly' .com files or
debug scripts or tricks with DOSKEY macros. I'm not really
that accomplished with these advanced pure DOS techniques
but I'm sure it would take a lot more than a few lines to
do.

Of course if this was limited to Cmd.exe then it's a single
line command but I guess that's cheating in this context.

@for /f "skip=1 tokens=*" %%a in (
'dir /a-d/o-d/b "C:\PROGRAM FILES\GRISOFT\AVG6\UPDATE\*.BIN"'
) do (del "C:\PROGRAM FILES\GRISOFT\AVG6\UPDATE\%%a")

On the other hand, W9x users could install Microsoft's Win95Cmd
http://www.tl.infi.net/~wtnewton/batch/fixcmd.htm as a
replacement for COMMAND.COM and get this functionality.

Garry



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