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DOS批处理 & 脚本技术（批处理室） » [fixed] Code for traversing the whole drive to delete folders won't work

Floor1　5872169	Posted 2008-11-17 09:31
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It can only delete the 123456 folders inside subdirectories. If I create a 123456 folder in the root directory, it can't delete it. Please take a look at where my code is wrong. for %%a in (c d e f) do (if exist %%a: (for /f "delims=" %%b in ('dir /s /b /d /a "%%a:\123456"') do (rd /s/q "%%b"))) [ Last edited by HAT on 2008-11-17 at 11:14 ]

Floor2　tireless	Posted 2008-11-17 10:16
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It really is like that. For example, if the folder C:\123456 exists, then dir /s /a:d /b C:\123456 starts looking for the 123456 folder under C:\123456\. What I usually do is first check (if exist) whether there is such a file (folder) in the root directory... @echo off for %%A in (c d e f) do ( if exist %%A: ( if exist "%%A:\123456\" rd /s /q "%%A:\123456\" for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /a:d /b "%%A:\123456" 2^>nul') do ( rd /s /q "%%a" ) ) )

Floor3　5872169	Posted 2008-11-17 10:36
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Thanks to the friend in the post above.

Floor4　moniuming	Posted 2008-11-17 10:39
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Try this? @echo off for %%a in (c d e f) do ( if exist %%a: ( for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /a /s /ad /b "%%a:\*"^\|findstr /i /e "\123456"') do ( echo rd /s/q "%%i" ) ) ) echo.&pause

Floor5　5872169	Posted 2008-11-17 10:48
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moniuming, thank you very much, the test succeeded!!