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search though all of c: and delete wild card - 9/23/2008 2:46:05 PM

mbinetti

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what i need to do is search from the root of c:\ and delete the directoires and all of its subfolders and files does anyone know an easy way ...
i foud this

strFolderName = "C:\Test"
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If fso.FolderExists(strFolderName) Then
fso.DeleteFolder strFolderName
End If
MsgBox "Done"

but i want it to search trough everything for "vectorworks* " there are different version of vecotr works out there so i need to find all vectorworks*

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RE: search though all of c: and delete wild card - 9/23/2008 4:51:30 PM

jnelson993

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Because I'm so m@d with tha ol' skool skillz, I like to use .BAT files for that stuff. RMDIR /Q /S is really good at axing folders and subfolders. So you just need to use DIR to enumerate all folders on the c: drive that start with "vectorworks*" and then operate on each of them. Something like this:

@echo off
SETLOCAL enabledelayedexpansion

FOR /F "usebackq tokens=*" %%A IN (`dir /S /B /AD c:\vectorworks*`) DO (
ECHO Removing folder "%%A"
IF EXIST "%%A" rmdir /q /s "%%A"
)
exit 0

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