[Solved] Read txt files through batch

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rajkrishna89 February 5, 2012 at 07:31:18 Pacific
Specs: Windows XP

Im a newbie pls suggest :- Is it possible to read txt files with the help of batch? there are 100 of txt files in a folder and in certain txt files a word for eg :-computing.net is written.... is ther any idea or batch to delete every txt files in the folder apart from the files which is containing the string computing.net...

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IVO February 5, 2012 at 07:47:36 Pacific

A batch script can read and even parse text files in many ways, now according to what you want to achieve

@echo off & setlocal
cd Your_Folder
for %%j in (*.txt) do type "%%j" | find /I "computing.net" > nul || del "%%j"

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rajkrishna89 February 6, 2012 at 04:01:55 Pacific

Thank u dude its works ...how to do the same thing in a directory? is it possible?>

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IVO February 6, 2012 at 06:42:11 Pacific

"How to do the same thing in a directory? Is it possible?"

What do you want to mean/achieve? The posted script does what you requested for all files stored in a directory and strings/words are stored in files not in directories.

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rajkrishna89 February 7, 2012 at 06:46:49 Pacific