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user2987842
user2987842

Reputation: 47

When a file is deleted, write this to logfile (BATCH)

Supposedly I want to delete logfiles from the C:\ drive. (XXX-Log1.log XXX-Log2.log)

Question: if a file is deleted (I'm just using the del /f /q C:\*.log command), there's obviously no output.

How can I write output to a logfile when a file is deleted and only then? I know for writing to a logfile you can use >>"D:\What\Ever\Deleted.log", but I'd like to have displayed which files were deleted, if any.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2052

Answers (2)

Matt Williamson
Matt Williamson

Reputation: 7095

Here is a vbscript you can use to monitor a folder for deletion events. This might do what you want. Just call it with cscript like cscript /nologo monitorfolder.vbs You'll need to edit it to monitor in your path. I just used my C:\temp folder for testing. 

MonitorFolder()

Function MonitorFolder()
intInterval = "2"
strDrive = "C:" 
strFolder = "\\temp\\"
strComputer = "." 
Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFS.CreateTextFile("C:\temp\Deleted.log")
Set objWMIService = GetObject( "winmgmts:" & _ 
    "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _ 
    strComputer & "\root\cimv2" )
strQuery =  _
    "Select * From __InstanceOperationEvent" _
    & " Within " & intInterval _
    & " Where Targetinstance Isa 'CIM_DataFile'" _
    & " And TargetInstance.Drive='" & strDrive & "'" _
    & " And TargetInstance.Path='" & strFolder & "'"
Set colEvents = objWMIService.ExecNotificationQuery (strQuery) 
WScript.Echo "Monitoring events...[Ctl-C] to end"
Do 

    Set objEvent = colEvents.NextEvent()
    Set objTargetInst = objEvent.TargetInstance

    Select Case objEvent.Path_.Class 
        Case "__InstanceDeletionEvent" 
            objFile.WriteLine(objTargetInst.Name)
    End Select 
Loop
End Function

Upvotes: 1

foxidrive
foxidrive

Reputation: 41234

If the folder does not have any subdirectories, then this will work:

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions
del /s "c:\folder\*.log" >file.log
pause

Upvotes: 1

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