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.bat script for latest file
Name: Ravi_varma Date: June 12, 2008 at 02:11:24 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: amd Product: 2004
Comment:
i have .csv files with timestamps in a folder lke below.
I need to keep only the latest file and delete rest of the files in that folder...in this case i want to keep only 20080302172309.csv file and delete remaing.
Please suggest how can i do it in batch scripting which needs to be executed in windows
Name: klint Date: June 12, 2008 at 02:54:13 Pacific
Reply:
@echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set latest_skipped= for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d /o-n 20*.csv') do ( if defined latest_skipped ( del %%a ) else ( set latest_skipped=1 ) )
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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: June 12, 2008 at 03:01:43 Pacific
Reply:
not tested
::== keeplast
@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /f "skip=1 tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/o-n *.csv') do ( del %%a )
===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 3
Name: klint Date: June 12, 2008 at 03:53:50 Pacific
Reply:
Good one, M2, I forgot about the usefulness of the "skip" keyword.
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