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Batch Freezes
Name: stroke6463 Date: June 26, 2006 at 16:40:54 Pacific OS: XP SP2 CPU/Ram: idk
Comment:
I made a batch that freezes on the line FOR and will stay there forever. If I press 'Control-C', it asks if I want to terminate the program. If I type 'n' to not terminate it, the batch continues. Any ideas? Thanks.
REM Delete Last Years Files @echo off
for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /b f:\*.* /s /a-d') do (Call :test %%A)
:test set file=%* del c:\progs\temp.txt del c:\progs\temp2.txt for /f "tokens=3 delims=/ " %%A in ('dir "%file%"') do (echo %%A >> c:\progs\temp.txt) findstr /n . c:\progs\temp.txt > c:\progs\temp2.txt for /f "tokens=2 delims=:" %%A in ('findstr /b "4:" c:\progs\temp2.txt') do if %%A lss 2006 echo %file% >> delete.txt )
Name: stroke6463 Date: June 26, 2006 at 18:12:22 Pacific
Reply:
Nevermind, I redirected the dir to a text file and it created a 500MB text file just for the files on F:. It was just taking a really long time. Thanks anyway.
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