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Finding files with a batch file.

Now, I know a bit about writing batch files and scripts etc... but this is a bit beyond my knowledge.

The software we develop at work has 2 sorts of files. Binary and source (as per any programming language).

The source files end in .p or .w and the binaries end in .r

Now we sometimes get problems where someone has edited a source file on their PC but there is a rogue binary file in someone else's network folder that is taking priority and being run instead of the new one.

WHat I would like to do is write a batch file to go through these user network folder and find each .r file and then see if there is a .w or .p in the same folder. If there is NOT a .p or .w in the same folder then delete the .r file.

I imagine this is possible (I could probably do something in Java but it would a lot more complex than I imagine it would be in a batch file).

Thanks for any help

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Re: Finding files with a batch file.

Personally, I'd dump the directory listing into an excel spreadsheet. I don't like batch files automatically deleting stuff!

dir /b /a-d *.* > filelist.txt

However, I think what you're looking for is the FOR command. Type HELP FOR at the CMD prompt for a full description. It's very powerful and quite complicated, but I'm sure you can figure it out. Post here when / if you do because I might come back and look in more detail later on.

You can do it with a .vbs script too, which might actually be easier.

Good luck!

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Wed May 06, 2009 1:33 pm

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Re: Finding files with a batch file.

OK, I've been exploring the for statement in the windows command line.

I now know how to find all the .r files in the current directory and all sub directories.

BUT!

I have a variable %X which will be something like... C:\somedirectory\subfolder\file.r

I now want to do an if exists statement with %X but using "file.*" instead of "file.r" at the end of the file path if that makes sense.

Hmm... any ideas?

Thanks

P.S. I've got an idea, back in a sec.

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Re: Finding files with a batch file.

Done

This is the line that does it...


	Code: for /r E:\ofoggi\gui %%X in (*.r) do if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.p if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.w echo %%X >> C:\listoffiles.txt

The syntax is as follows...


	Code: for (list of items) in (set) do (command)

i.e. mine does this

for E:\ofoggi\gui and all it's subfolders find all files ending in .r do search for same file but ending in .p if it isn't there search for the same file ending in .w if that isn't there then write the file name to a txt file.

The hardest bit to find was the variable editing stuff.

The file path is %%X

%%~dX will return the drive letter i.e. "E:"
%%~pX will return the path i.e. "\ofoggi\gui\subfolder\"
%%~nX will return the filename without the extension i.e. "somefile"

(All this came from HERE)

I may change the echo to just del the files instead.

If you are doing this from a command line (not a batch file) then only use single %s. doubles %s are used for batch files.

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Re: Finding files with a batch file.

Well done. Knew you'd get it to work once you knew where to start

And thanks for posting back. That's pretty clever stuff

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Sat May 09, 2009 1:16 pm

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Re: Finding files with a batch file.

I've edited the code a bit to make it a bit better


	Code: @echo off :start CLS if exist "C:\List of .r files.txt" del "C:\List of .r files.txt" :input set INPUT= set LOOP=1 set /P INPUT=Enter the name of the user folder you wish to search or enter "all" to search all user folders %=% if "%INPUT%"=="" goto input if "%INPUT%"=="all" goto all set FILEPATH=E:\%INPUT% goto search :all if %LOOP%==1 set FILEPATH=E:\ofoggi if %LOOP%==2 set FILEPATH=E:\cricha if %LOOP%==3 set FILEPATH=E:\jstott if %LOOP%==4 set FILEPATH=E:\tbasti if %LOOP%==5 set FILEPATH=E:\awatso if %LOOP%==6 set FILEPATH=E:\majohn if %LOOP%==7 set FILEPATH=E:\mawils if %LOOP%==8 goto results :search echo Searching gui and hire folders in %FILEPATH% for .r files with no source files... for /r %FILEPATH%\gui %%X in (.r) do if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.p if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.w echo %%X >> "C:\List of .r files.txt" for /r %FILEPATH%\hire %%X in (.r) do if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.p if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.w echo %%X >> "C:\List of .r files.txt" set /a LOOP=%LOOP%+1 if "%INPUT%"=="all" goto all :results if exist "C:\List of .r files.txt" goto :found else goto :notfound :notfound echo No files found. pause goto restart :found echo Files found, press enter to open list of files. pause "C:\List of .r files.txt" goto restart :restart set RESTART= set /P RESTART=Do you wish to search again? Y/N %=% if "%RESTART%"=="Y" goto start if "%RESTART%"=="y" goto start

It would be better if I knew how to ask a simple yes no question without having to input to a variable though.

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Re: Finding files with a batch file.

Made another change to streamline it a bit and I think I'm going to leave it alone now


	Code: @echo off :start CLS if exist "C:\List of .r files.bat" del "C:\List of .r files.bat" :input set INPUT= set LOOP=1 set /P INPUT=Enter the name of the user folder you wish to search or enter "all" to search all user folders %=% if "%INPUT%"=="" goto input if "%INPUT%"=="all" goto all set FILEPATH=E:\%INPUT% goto search :all if %LOOP%==1 set FILEPATH=E:\ofoggi if %LOOP%==2 set FILEPATH=E:\cricha if %LOOP%==3 set FILEPATH=E:\jstott if %LOOP%==4 set FILEPATH=E:\tbasti if %LOOP%==5 set FILEPATH=E:\awatso if %LOOP%==6 set FILEPATH=E:\majohn if %LOOP%==7 set FILEPATH=E:\mawils if %LOOP%==8 goto results :search echo Searching gui and hire folders in %FILEPATH% for .r files with no source files... for /r %FILEPATH%\gui %%X in (.r) do if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.p if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.w echo del /p %%X >> "C:\List of .r files.bat" for /r %FILEPATH%\hire %%X in (.r) do if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.p if not exist %%~dX%%~pX%%~nX.w echo del /p %%X >> "C:\List of .r files.bat" set /a LOOP=%LOOP%+1 if "%INPUT%"=="all" goto all :results if exist "C:\List of .r files.bat" goto :found else goto :notfound :notfound echo No files found. pause goto restart :found echo Files found... call "C:\List of .r files.bat" goto restart :restart set RESTART= set /P RESTART=Do you wish to search again? Y/N %=% if "%RESTART%"=="Y" goto start if "%RESTART%"=="y" goto start

It now creates a batch file with a load of "del /p filename" lines in it. del /p will prompt before deleting.

It then goes off and calls that file so that once it finishes it then carries on in this file. If you just run the file then it closes this file and runs that in it's place i.e. you don't get the restart prompt.

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