Subj : ffind => del
To   : Renato Zambon
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Jun 02 2003 12:54 pm

 RZ> Small doubt: how can I delete a list of files created by
 RZ> ffind?

 RZ> Example:

 RZ> ffind /b /t"blablabla" *.ext > deleta.lst
 RZ> del ???

 RZ> (??? = list of files in deleta.lst)

this is something i do all the time... basically, you just want to read the 
files from the list, one line at a time... this should do what you want... 
complete with FD style logging OB-)

watch the linewrap! there should be a >> %logname% at the end of every ECHO 
line...

=== snip ===
@echo off
set lstname=deleta.lst
set logname=deleta.log

echo. >> %logname%
echo ----------  %_DOW %_date, FTSCHATCH Process >> %logname%

echo   %_TIME%  DELETION: Starting process... >> %logname%
if not exist %lstname% goto error1
set linecnt=%@lines[%lstname%]
if %linecnt% EQ -1 goto error2
iff  %linecnt% EQ 0 then
  echo   %_TIME%  DELETION: Attempting to delete 1 file. >> %logname%
else
  echo   %_TIME%  DELETION: Attempting to delete %@inc[%linecnt%] files. >> 
%logname%
endiff
set curline=0
:loop
set hfname=%@line[%lstname%,%curline%]
set curline=%@inc[%curline%]
iff exist %hfname% then
  echo   %_TIME%  DELETION: Deleting %hfname% >> %logname%
else
  echo ! %_TIME%  DELETION: %hfname% not found! >> %logname%
endiff
set curline=%@inc[%curline%]
if %curline% LT %linecnt% goto loop
echo   %_TIME%  DELETION: Removing input file %lstname% >> %logname%
del /q %lstname%
goto end

:error1
echo ! %_TIME%  DELETION: %lstame% not found! >> %logname%
goto end

:error2
echo ! %_TIME%  DELETION: %lstame% is an empty file! >> %logname%
goto end

:end
echo   %_TIME%  DELETION: Process complete. >> %logname%
set lstname=
set logname=
set linecnt=
set curline=
set hfname=
=== snip ===

run it after your ffind command with the deleta.lst in the current directory... 
the log file is also created in the current directory... if you want screen 
output, its easy enough to duplicate the echo lines and remove the ">> 
%logname%" from the end...

)\/(ark

 
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