I'm trying to get a list of files from a directory in DOS and I would like to exclude any files that START with "I_"
I can get it to exclude anything with I_ but that excludes it if it doesn't start with it. Here's my script >
dir /s /b c:\TEST | findstr /vi "\c:\TEST\I_." > c:\TEST\List.txt
Anyway to get "I_" to be excluded ONLY when it's the start of the word (ie I_TEST)?
You haven't exactly defined "word," but if you mean that a file or directory name begins a word, then adding the dirsep to the search string should do the trick.
dir /s /b c:\TEST | findstr /vi "\I_" > c:\TEST\List.txt
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I need a CMD batch file to delete all the log files.
My company makes plugins for their product and the path is something as follows:
C:/Program Files/product/../plugins/../plugin_Path/pluginOne/audit/log
C:/Program Files/product/../plugins/../plugin_Path/pluginOne/audit/log-archive
C:/Program Files/product/../Root/plugins/../plugin_Path/pluginTwo/audit/log
C:/Program Files/product/../Root/plugins/../plugin_Path/pluginTwo/audit/log-archive
Now I need to delete all the log and log-archive folders with its contains.
Currently I wrote a samll program like this:
#echo off
color 02
for %%A in (
"C:/Program Files/product/plugins/plugin_Path/pluginOne/audit/log"
"C:/Program Files/product/plugins/plugin_Path/pluginOne/audit/log-archive"
"C:/Program Files/product/plugins/plugin_Path/pluginTwo/audit/log"
"C:/Program Files/product/plugins/plugin_Path/pluginTwo/audit/log-archive"
) do (
del /Q %%A
echo Deleted %%A
)
echo All files deleted
pause
echo Program ended
But here I need to insert all the log paths manually.
I am looking for a solution where I could point the parent folder (say Program Files/Company) and it could traverse all the files inside and will delete all the log and log-archival folders with its contains.
I am a QA person have good QA experience but no experience on batch programming and I dont have much time and support team is not present. [Need help]. There are more than 1K log files are present.
First, as explained by the Microsoft documentation Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces, the directory separator on Windows is \ and not / as on Linux/Mac. / is used on Windows for options as you can see on your code for example on /Q. So use in future \ in file/folder paths. The Windows file system accessing kernel functions automatically replace all forward slashes by backslashes before accessing the file systems, but writing code depending on automatic error correction is never a good idea.
The task to delete all folders with name log or log-archive in a specified folder and all its subfolders can be done with a single command line.
#for /F "delims=" %%I in ('dir "%ProgramFiles%\product\plugins\plugin_Path\log*" /AD /B /S 2^>nul ^| %SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /E /I /R "\\log \\log-archive"') do #rd /Q /S "%%I" 2>nul
FOR with option /F runs in a separate command process started with cmd.exe /C (more precise with %ComSpec% /C) in background the command line in '... ' which is here:
dir "C:\Program Files\product\plugins\plugin_Path\log*" /AD /B /S 2>nul | C:\Windows\System32\findstr.exe /E /I /R "\\log \\log-archive"
The command DIR outputs to handle STDOUT
in bare format because of option /B
just directories because of option /AD (attribute directory)
directory names matching the wildcard pattern log*
in specified directory C:\Program Files\product\plugins\plugin_Path
and all its subdirectories because of option /S
with full path also because of option /S.
It could be that DIR does not find any file system entry matching these criteria. In this case an error message is output by DIR to handle STDERR. This error output is redirected with 2>nul to device NUL to suppress it.
The standard output of DIR is redirected with | to handle STDIN of FINDSTR which runs
because of option /I a case-insensitive
regular expression find explicitly requested with option /R
for string \log or \log-archive (space is interpreted as OR)
which must be found at end of a line because of option /E.
All lines matching these search criteria are output by FINDSTR to handle STDOUT of background command process. This filtering of output of DIR with FINDSTR is necessary to avoid the deletion of a directory which is named for example LogToKeep also found and output by DIR.
Read the Microsoft article about Using Command Redirection Operators for an explanation of 2>nul and |. The redirection operators > and | must be escaped with caret character ^ on FOR command line to be interpreted as literal characters when Windows command interpreter processes this command line before executing command FOR which executes the embedded command line with using a separate command process started in background.
FOR with option /F captures output to handle STDOUT of started command process and processes this output line by line after started cmd.exe terminated itself. Empty lines are always ignored by FOR which do not occur here. Lines starting with a semicolon are also ignored by default because of eol=; is the default definition for end of line option. But a full qualified folder path cannot contain a semicolon at beginning because the folder path starts either with a drive letter or with a backslash in case of a UNC path. So default end of line option can be kept in this case. FOR would split up by default every line into substrings with using normal space and horizontal tab as string delimiters and would assign just first space/tab separated string to specified loop variable. This line splitting behavior is not wanted here as the folder path contains definitely a space character and the entire folder path is needed and not just the string up to first space. For that reason delims= is used to specify an empty list of delimiters which disables line splitting behavior.
FOR executes for every directory output by DIR passing FINDSTR filter with full path the command RD to remove the directory quietly because of option /Q and with all files and subdirectories because of /S.
The deletion of the directory could fail because of missing NTFS permissions, or the directory to delete or one of its subdirectories is current directory of a running process, or a file in the directory to delete is currently opened by a running process in a manner which denies deletion of the file while being opened, or the directory to delete does not exist anymore because it was deleted already before in FOR loop. The error message output by command RD to handle STDERR is in this case redirected to device NUL to suppress it.
Please note that command RD deletes all log and log-archives directories and not just the files and subdirectories in these directories. It is unclear from your question what exactly should be deleted by the batch file.
It is of course also possible to replace rd /Q /S "%%I" by del /A /F /Q "%%I\*" to delete just all files including hidden and read-only files quietly in the directory assigned with full path to loop variable I.
# left to command FOR and command RD just suppress the output of those commands before execution by Windows command processor cmd.exe. Both # are not needed if this single command line is used in a batch file containing before #echo off.
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
del /?
dir /?
findstr /?
for /?
rd /?
If you're wanting to remove the contents of the log and log-archive directories. This means the easiest solution would probably be FORFILES.
This will delete all the files under log and log-archive directories found within any subfolder of "C:\Program Files\product\plugins". The folders MUST be named exactly log or log-archive. It will not remove directories.
FORFILES /P "C:\Program Files\product\plugins" /M log /C "cmd /c if #isdir==TRUE DEL /s /q #path\*"
FORFILES /P "C:\Program Files\product\plugins" /M log-archive /C "cmd /c if #isdir==TRUE DEL /s /q #path\*"
You could also add a /D switch to only delete applicable files if they are older than a specific number of days. This will delete all the log and log-archive files under "C:\Program Files\product\plugins" that are older than 90 days:
FORFILES /D -90 /P "C:\Program Files\product\plugins" /M log /C "cmd /c if #isdir==TRUE DEL /s /q #path\*"
FORFILES /D -90 /P "C:\Program Files\product\plugins" /M log-archive /C "cmd /c if #isdir==TRUE DEL /s /q #path\*"
Im trying to create a batch file that will copy a directory to another directory however, the directory I wish to copy too has a portion of the name randomly generated i.e. "jibberish.Directory1".
is there a way to do this ?
I was trying something like:
XCOPY "%~dp0DATA\test" "%APPDATA%\Application1\Directory\*Directory1\" /E /C /R /I /K /Y
but total fail. Any help would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks!
xcopy does not support wildcards in directory names. Therefore a for loop is additionally necessary for this task which is as follows:
In folder C:\Temp there is the batch file DuplicateFolder.bat with the code below.
The folder to duplicate is DATA\test in directory of the batch file.
C:\Temp\DATA\test contains:
SubFolder1
FirstFile.txt
Second File.txt
Sub Folder 2
ListFile.csv
Readme.txt
All these subfolders and files should be copied to each subfolder in %APPDATA%\Application1\Directory ending with a number after a dot.
%APPDATA%\Application1\Directory contains for example:
Folder abc.1
Folder e-g.2
Folder h to k.3
Folder last.4
Folder not changed
The last folder should be ignored as it does not contain a dot and a number at end.
The result should be for example for the first subfolder Folder abc.1:
Folder abc.1
SubFolder1
FirstFile.txt
Second File.txt
Sub Folder 2
ListFile.csv
Readme.txt
Code of DuplicateFolder.bat is:
#echo off
set "SourceFolder=%~dp0DATA\test"
for /D %%F in ("%APPDATA%\Application1\Directory\*") do (
if not "%%~xF" == "" %SystemRoot%\System32\xcopy.exe "%SourceFolder%" "%%~F" /E /C /Q /R /I /K /Y >nul
)
set "SourceFolder="
This batch file just checks if folder name contains a dot without checking if string after dot - the "file extension" referenced with %%~xF - is really a number. This very simple test is very fast.
For details about used command for and an explanation of the parameters and special loop variable references open a command prompt window, execute for /?, and read help output for this command in the console window.
I wish to copy a file with extension .dyn which is located in each subfolder of main folder(T15_finished). I wish to copy it into respective subfolder at other location(T15). I have created that location using xcopy command. Here, .dyn file is being copied successfully in respective subfolder in T15 folder(see below code). Now, I have a file which has extension as .dynain which is located in the same subfolder as .dyn. And .dynain file is also getting copied which i don't want.
Please see following code which i have created. Can anyone tell me whats wrong ?
#echo off
xcopy D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15_finished D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\FRESH_SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15 /t
xcopy /e D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15_finished\*.dyn D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\FRESH_SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15
pause
Short file names. If you do a dir /x in the folder containing the .dynain file, you will see the 8.3 filename generated for the file, and it will have .dyn extension.
If you know the extensions of the conflicting files, you can use robocopy with /xf switch to indicate the files (*.dynain) to exclude, or you can generate a exclude file to use with xcopy /exclude:file (see xcopy /? for a explanation)
Or, you can generate the list of files to exclude
(for /f "tokens=" %%a in (
'dir /s /b "D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15_finished\*.dyn" ^| findstr /v /i /e /l ".dyn"'
) do #echo(%%~nxa)>excludedFiles.txt
xcopy /exclude:excludedFiles.txt /e D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15_finished\*.dyn D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\FRESH_SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15
Or (as posted by foxidrive), copy all and then delete the non needed files.
The short filename is being matched as well as the long filename. That is the reason.
A solution is to use another command to delete the files:
del /s "D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\FRESH_SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15\*.dynain"
I know that to display alternate data streams of all the files (if any) in command prompt, this is the command dir /R. But, how do I do it if I only want to display files that have alternate data streams?
dir /s /r | find ":$DATA"
or
dir /r | find ":$DATA"
the first will search in all sub-directories.The second only in current folder. These will show also the ADS assigned to the directory.For only files:
dir /a-d /s /r | find ":$DATA"
I have the following command that I have in a BAT file:
dir /b /s /-p *.sas /o:n >"%CD%"\WIN_file_list.txt
The goal is to have a file that contains the full path of ONLY files with .sas extension.
The problem is that when I run the above script, it outputs everything with sas in the extension. The file contains all of the .sas files that I want, but also all of the .sasb7dat files that I do not want in the new txt file.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Use findstr to filter:
dir /b /s /-p *.sas /o:n | findstr /E .sas >"%CD%"\WIN_file_list.txt