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YogStackOverFlow
YogStackOverFlow

Reputation: 13

Remove files from a folder using list of a filename?

I am trying to delete file from a folder which has 3,500 + files.

FolderA(3,500+Files), FolderB(<260 Files).

What I want is that I want a FolderA(3,500+Files) - FolderA(list.txt) = Missing files.

I have tried :

Get-Content c:\path\to\list.txt | Remove-Item

It doesn't work.

FolderA has over 3,500 files and within the folder i have a file called "list.txt" which has list of all files which I would like to delete from FolderA

Hope this make sense.

Thanks, Yogs

Upvotes: 0

Views: 617

Answers (2)

MC ND
MC ND

Reputation: 70933

cd "C:\Users\gggggg\Desktop\missing2" 
Get-Content "C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\missing2\ToBeDeleted.txt" | Remove-Item

Change active folder to the folder to be processed, get the list and remove each item

For a batch solution

for /f "delims=" %%a in ("C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\missing2\ToBeDeleted.txt") do (
    del "C:\Users\gggggg\Desktop\missing2\%%a"
)

Upvotes: 0

Magoo
Magoo

Reputation: 80033

dir /b /a-d "FolderA*"|findstr /g:"FolderA\list.txt"

should do what you appear to want.

What has "FolderB" go to do with the problem?

--- er, you want to delete files that are not in the list list.txt ?

Well, the above should give you a list of files-to-be-deleted, so

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d "FolderA*"^|findstr /g:"FolderA\list.txt"') do ECHO(del "FolderA\%%a"

should echo the same list. If it is correct, change the echo(delto del after verification to actually delete the files.

Upvotes: 0

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