Hi Boanne
what about changing to the directory whear the search is to be done?
Pete
On 1999-06-12 Boanne said:
>Hello Everyone,
>Thanks for all the input on my batch file problem, but I have
>solved it, (or almost solved it) with a tiny .com program written
>with debug. Thanks very much to Bjorn from Norway for emailing
>me the instructions on how to do this.
>Heaps of chocolate cake to you Bjorn! :)
>The only little problem left is this: To use this .com program
>I need a to generate a text file of nothing but filenames, like
>so-
>horses.txt
>birds.txt
>zebras.txt
>camels.txt
>Using FIND [find /f elephant *.txt > zoo.txt] generates a file
>like this:
>c:horses.txt
>c:birds.txt
>c:zebras.txt
>c:camels.txt
>As it is now I have my batch file set up to load my text editor
>so I can edit c:'s out of the text file, and then run the .com
>that deletes the files. This is fine and I'm quite satisfied
>with it the way it is....
>But if anyone knows a way to strip the c:'s out without loading
>the text editor I'm open to suggestions.
>Boanne
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