removing extra files in dos

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I have same file by name

i want to keep only access file and want to delete rest. This is specific to DOS only.
Any idea of doing this. I tried so many options but none worked for me.

Thanks
Namish

2

You mean , these files are not in unix ?..

3

No these are not in unix. this is on windows box.

4 
del access.???

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

5

Hi Festus,

i have already tried this option and it does not work. it will delete all the files including access.

6

it works as if dot is not there.
Should there be some regexs to match numbers in batch scripts?

7

I did not get what you want to say here.

Thanks
NT

8

Hi Namith ,

The only way i found is

del access.0*
9

What dos???
Must be one of the newer M$lop... xp|>

That should not happen ... That is the correct method.
The .??? signifies that there must be 3 characters following a dot!

If the .0?? or .0* don't work for ya, move your access file to another dir then del *.*... then it can't delete it... :slight_smile:

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

10

Create a batch (.bat) file not called access.bat (!) containing:

for %%f in (access.???) do @echo del %%f | find "." >> temp.bat
call temp.bat
del temp.bat

Explanation: Generates a list of all files access.??? (which includes "access"), output in format "del filename" but ignore line not containing "." . Then execute the output batch file "temp.bat".

11

try this

for /f "usebackq" %%i in (`dir /b access.*`) do (
	if not %%i==access del /f /q %%i
)
12

Combined with b33713 ideas:

@echo off
for %%f in (access.???) do (if not %%f==access del %%f)