sweep.exe replacement? 2

[paoconnell]

Wayyyy back in the mists of time (early 90s) DOS and Windows 3.x ran in 16 bit space. In those days, there was a program called sweep.exe that would start in the current directory and execute a DOS command (with arguments) on that directory and all of its subdirectory tree, e.g.

sweep del *.bak

would remove all .bak files from the current directory and subdirectories, and their subdirectories ad infinitum.

Sweep was useful for removing .bak, .obj, and other temporary files during a development process, as well as (for instance) compiling all source modules in a tree.

Sweep.exe still exists, but hasn't been maintained since the early 90s, and doesn't recognize long filenames, which were first implemented in Win95 and WinNT.

The question: Is there a functional equivalent to sweep that runs from the cmd box, and will recognize long filenames?


Pat O'Connell
Visualize Whirled Peas

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Del ( with appropriate options) can work that way:

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c:\transfers\CIDData>help del
Deletes one or more files.

DEL [/P] [/F] [/S] [/Q] [/A[[:]attributes]] names
ERASE [/P] [/F] [/S] [/Q] [/A[[:]attributes]] names

  names         Specifies a list of one or more files or directories.
                Wildcards may be used to delete multiple files. If a
                directory is specified, all files within the directory
                will be deleted.

  /P            Prompts for confirmation before deleting each file.
  /F            Force deleting of read-only files.
  /S            Delete specified files from all subdirectories.
  /Q            Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to delete on global wildcar
  /A            Selects files to delete based on attributes
  attributes    R  Read-only files            S  System files
                H  Hidden files               A  Files ready for archivi
                -  Prefix meaning not

If Command Extensions are enabled DEL and ERASE change as follows:

The display semantics of the /S switch are reversed in that it shows
you only the files that are deleted, not the ones it could not find.

Hope it helps..

 

[paoconnell]

Well, that's a del feature I didn't know about--helpful!

Recursing del is a part of the solution, but the rest of the functionality would help too. Anyone else?

Pat O'Connell
Visualize Whirled Peas

 

[Bobg1]

you could always use the search function in explorer.
Do your search for *.bak and delete the whole mess.

 

[bcastner]

FORFILES.exe (Resource Kit)

Batch process multiple files. CMD can call any valid DOS command or even a batch file.

syntax
FORFILES [-pPath] [-s] [-dDate] [-mMask] [-cCommand]

key
-pPath : Path to search default=current folder

-s : Recurse into sub-folders

-dDate : This can be
+DDMMYY to select files newer than a given date
(filedate >=DDMMYY) or
-DDMMYY to select files older than a given date
(filedate <=DDMMYY) or
+DD to select files newer than DD days ago or
-DD to select files older than DD days ago

-mMask : Search mask (wildcards allowed) default=*.*
-cCommand : Command to execute on each file. default="CMD /C Echo @FILE"

-v : Verbose report

The following variables can be used in the -cCommand (must be upper case)

@FILE,
@FNAME_WITHOUT_EXT,
@EXT,
@PATH,
@RELPATH,

@ISDIR,
@FSIZE,
@FDATE,
@FTIME

To ECHO Hex characters in the Command use: 0xHH

Examples:

To find every text file on the C: drive
FORFILES -pC:\ -s -m*.TXT -c"CMD /C Echo @FILE is a text file"
To show the path of every HTML file on the C: drive
FORFILES -pC:\ -s -m*.HTML -c"CMD /C Echo @RELPATH is the location of @FILE"
List every folder on the C: drive
FORFILES -pC:\ -s -m*. -c"CMD /C if @ISDIR==TRUE echo @FILE is a folder"
For every file on the C: drive list the file extension in double quotes
FORFILES -pc:\ -s -m*.* -c"CMD /c echo extension of @FILE is 0x22@EXT0x22"

Direct download:

http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/forfiles.zip