Batch to delete all files in a folder with a wildcard in the path

Question

So what I'm trying to do is go into every folder in the following directory

"C:\Documents and Settings\"

and for every folder in it, regardless of the name, check if this path exists

"C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\Application Data\CSMRpt\"

if it exists then delete all txt files inside that director, if the path doesn't exists then do nothing and move on to the next folder inside "C:\Documents and Settings\"

This is what I came up with so far:

set PATH = "\Local Settings\Application Data\CSMRpt\" set FILETYPE = "*.txt" for /d %%g in ("C:\Documents and Settings\*") do if exist %%g%PATH% goto pathexists :pathexists del %%g%PATH%%FILETYPE%

rojo · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-22 17:19:39Z

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Try this.

@echo off setlocal set cwd=%CD% set p=Local Settings\Application Data\CSMRpt cd /d "c:\Documents and Settings\" for /d %%I in (*) do ( if exist "%%I\%p%\" ( pushd "%%I\%p%\" del /q *.txt popd ) ) :: (change back to original directory) cd /d "%cwd%"

edited Feb 22, 2013 at 17:19

answered Feb 22, 2013 at 17:05

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Patrick Meinecke Over a year ago

You can have cd change drive as well with cd /D fullpath

David R Tribble Over a year ago

Minor note: I tend to use if exist "%%d\.", with a trailing slash-dot, to check directory names.

Patrick Meinecke · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-22 17:34:20Z

A couple things wrong here, you can't have spaces around the = in the set command, using goto wouldn't have passed the variable (you could however use call instead and pass it as a argument) you don't need quotes around every variable, %PATH% although you can reset it, you shouldn't for something like this as it is a environment variable.

Corrected code:

set THEPATH=\Local Settings\Application Data\CSMRpt\ set FILETYPE=*.txt for /d %%g in ("C:\Documents and Settings\*") do if exist "%%g%THEPATH%." del "%%g%THEPATH%%FILETYPE%"

If you really didn't want the for loop to be one line you could do this as well

set THEPATH=\Local Settings\Application Data\CSMRpt\ set FILETYPE=*.txt for /d %%g in ("C:\Documents and Settings\*") do if exist "%%g%THEPATH%." call :deltxtfiles "%%~g" exit /B :deltxtfiles del "%~1%THEPATH%%FILETYPE%" goto:eof

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