Hi Ben,
I had tried something very similar to this, and it didn't work,
that's how I came upon the idea of redirecting the filenames to a
text file.
I took the notes and line references out of your file and cut and
copied it to a file called KILL.BAT, and this is how I ran it:
kill *.txt
And I ran it in the directory of the files I want to delete.
Could it be that the OpenDOS's FIND command doesn't return an
error level and this is why it doesn't work?
Thanks very much,
Boanne
Ben A L Jemmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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@ECHO OFF [0]
IF %1!==! GOTO ERROR
IF %2!==CHECK! GOTO CHECKING
FOR %%A IN (%1) DO CALL %0 %%A CHECK [1]
GOTO END
:ERROR
ECHO You need to give me a wildcard filespec!
ECHO e.g. %0 *.TXT
GOTO END
:CHECKING
FIND elephant %1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 DEL %1 [2]
:END
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[0] For MS-DOS < 3.3 (or equivalent) use ECHO OFF
[1] For MS-DOS < 3.3 (or equivalent) use ... COMMAND /C %0.BAT %%A CHECK
[2] Might be IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 - I always forget whether FIND gives 1 for
found or not found.
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