batch file help

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Hi there,
I am trying to write a batch file that takes as an arquemant a directory to
look for, searches the current directory and all sub directories for a
directory of that name and deletes each one it finds.
The command that I am using is
FOR /F %%i IN ('dir /b /s /ad %1*') DO rd %%i
and the problem is that if I have a directory structure say dir\dir the
script deletes the sub directoryvand not the top level dir.

Could someone please advise why this is so and how I can modify this
behaviour.

Am I using the right command to display all directories below the current of
a given name. I have noted that the command "dir /b /ad dir_Name" displays
the
contents of directoty named dir_Name but wont list directories in the
current directory named dir_Name.

Regards,
James.
 
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:07:01 -0700, "james"
I am trying to write a batch file that takes as an arquemant a directory to
look for, searches the current directory and all sub directories for a
directory of that name and deletes each one it finds.
The command that I am using is
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FOR /F %%i IN ('dir /b /s /ad %1*') DO rd %%i
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and the problem is that if I have a directory structure say dir\dir the
script deletes the sub directoryvand not the top level dir.
Click to expand...

You may be up against the bottom-up way /F processes subtrees.

One way might be to expand the For statement to Set a variable when a
match is found, and then loop to re-run the entire For statement until
this variable is no longer Set. Messy if applied to laaarge subtrees.
 
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