Hi! I thought DEL returns an ERRORLEVEL, However on XP I always get "0" no matter what.
Any ideas?
W2K returns 1 on failed DEL. Wait for IVO or Razor2.3 or one of the guys using XP.
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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
You're right, it does output '0' regardless of if it finds a file or not. Could you not do something similar to below.
IF EXIST C:\File.txt ECHO File Exists!
Well that can be done but it is not any use to me, because I am deleting a list files and would like know if a file from list is actually missing, which means a previous process hasn't done its job correctly and needs attention
Could you not use FOR /F %%i IN (FILESTODELETE.TXT) DO (
IF NOT EXIST %%i ECHO %%iDOES NOT EXIST!
)
You could then puit the list of files to delete in the FILESDOTDELETE.TXT file, after the delete, it will say if it has deleted sucessfully.
I can't think of how else you could adapt DEL as it simply only outputs error levels of 0....
I already use a similar code but ERRORLEVEL is much more neater Thanks anyway, I appreciate your time
