Andrew, Thank you for the explanation of FOR. I don't do a lot of scripting, so it is much appreciated.
Dean On 8/24/06, Colbeck, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dean, I'm not sure if this is close to what you're looking for, but in addition to the forfiles command, the "for" command that is built into the command shell can be very handy, particularly if you're only going one directory deep. Check it out: for /? For example, you can do this to loop through the directories: For /D %i in (c:\*.*) do @echo %i Which will print out all of the directories in your c:\ drive's root. The "/D" part of that can change to various other letters depending on what you want to loop through. Another example; if you want to just loop through the files in a given folder you don't use any parameter there: for %i in (c:\imail\spool\d*.smd) do @echo %i Which will print out all of the files that look like messages in your IMail spool folder. You mentioned that you wanted just file or folder names or some variation, and that can be done as well. I should explain that the %i in my examples is just an arbitrary letter I used for the counting and I used it to match the output of the "for /?" command. You can use any letter you like, and if you use the "for" command in a batch file, you need to "escape" the % by repeating it, i.e. use %%i instead of %i, or %%X instead of %X. With the "for" command you can use expand that %i variable in a path/file name to the fully qualified path, the filename, the extension, or a combination of them. Use the "for /?" for the full examples, but here's a real-world example. In one folder, I wanted to replace all of the web log files for last month with one zip file per log file (e.g. zip up the log file into the appropriately named zip file). This was very easy for the "for" command: for %i in (w30607??.log) do wzzip -mex %~ni.zip %i The ~n modified the %i so that although %i became w3060701.log the parameters passed to wzzip looked like: wzzip -mex w3060701.zip w3060701.log ... And so on for all the log files found. I know that doesn't help with the spam removal part of your task, but I hope it helps you with the ability to run a script against the folders and files you want. Andrew 8) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dean Lawrence > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:43 PM > To: declude.junkmail@declude.com > Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Spam folder cleaning script. > > Hi All, > > I was wondering if anyone had a spam mailbox cleaning script > that they would like to share. I am already using > immsgexp.exe to clean-up all user mailboxes that have > messages over 60 days old. I have just implemented moving > mail to a Spam mailbox under each users account and would > like to clean out any mail over 15 days old. > > I can run forfiles.exe to get a list of all users with Spam > mailboxes, but the @path variable is including the file name > not just the directory path. With immsgexp.exe you need to > specify the folder path as one switch and then the mailbox > with a second switch. So I need to be able to retrieve just > the folder path. Which brings me back to my original > question, anyone want to share? > > Thanks, > > Dean > > -- > __________________________________________ > Dean Lawrence, CIO/Partner > Internet Data Technology > 888.GET.IDT1 ext. 701 * fax: 888.438.4381 > http://www.idatatech.com/ Corporate Internet Development and > Marketing Specialists > > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
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