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Inodes in DOS

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Name: ace_omega
Date: October 28, 2009 at 11:58:03 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: Quad Core / 4Gig
Product: Hp (hewlett-packard) Ms windows server 2003 r2 ent option kit hewlett packard
Subcategory: Batch
Comment:

Does any one know how to get the equivilent of an Inode in DOS?
I am trying to write a clean up program that will compare the files last modified date with the current date.



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Response Number 1
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: October 28, 2009 at 12:23:55 Pacific
Reply:

What's Imode?


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Response Number 2
Name: ace_omega
Date: October 28, 2009 at 12:47:52 Pacific
Reply:

Click here....

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/under...

Never Mind though, I think I am going to use...

DIR /OU > temp.txt and just try to use it in a for loop with delimiters.


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Response Number 3
Name: FishMonger
Date: October 28, 2009 at 13:05:44 Pacific
Reply:

A better option would be to use a language, such as Perl, Python, VB, that can stat the file to retrieve most of the same info that the Linux stat command returns.


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Response Number 4
Name: ace_omega
Date: October 28, 2009 at 13:21:15 Pacific
Reply:

Ok here is what I have...

@echo off
dir /OD
For /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 delims= " %%A in ('DIR /OD') do @(
  Echo %%A
  Echo %%F
  )
pause

But only some of the files are listing. I have a feeling the the delimiter is not a space but a tab. The problem is I can not figure out how to get ascii characters for the system command in notepad. The Character mapper only allows me to use DEC 22 and up. I need ascii 9 for the tab. Is there any way to do an equivalent of CHR(9) in CMD? I can do it using COPY CON then use the Alt+009 thing but copy con is worse than VI.

Yes, I could do a VB script but I would like to figure it out in CMD.


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Response Number 5
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: October 28, 2009 at 14:56:06 Pacific
Reply:

I don't know where this is headed but it has nothing to do with DOS.


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Response Number 6
Name: ghostdog
Date: October 28, 2009 at 22:51:28 Pacific
Reply:

inodes are unix based. they are different to DOS.

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Response Number 7
Name: Razor2.3
Date: October 29, 2009 at 09:07:29 Pacific
Reply:

Better idea?

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /od /b') do @echo %%a


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Response Number 8
Name: ace_omega
Date: October 29, 2009 at 09:40:58 Pacific
Reply:

the problem with /b is that it does not give me the dates. I need the dates so that I can compare them with the current date and only delete files that are so old.


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Response Number 9
Name: Razor2.3
Date: October 29, 2009 at 09:50:56 Pacific
Reply:

Date math in CMD is a terrible idea. VBScript is just as native, and it has proper date math.

EDIT: Once I get off my soapbox, I'll probably throw this out there:

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /od') do @echo %%~TFa


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