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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 5

DOS DIR - exclude files that start with string

I'm trying to get a list of files from a directory in DOS and I would like to exclude any files that START with "I_"

I can get it to exclude anything with I_ but that excludes it if it doesn't start with it. Here's my script >

dir /s /b c:\TEST | findstr /vi "\c:\TEST\I_." > c:\TEST\List.txt

Anyway to get "I_" to be excluded ONLY when it's the start of the word (ie I_TEST)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1669

Answers (1)

mojo
mojo

Reputation: 4132

You haven't exactly defined "word," but if you mean that a file or directory name begins a word, then adding the dirsep to the search string should do the trick.

dir /s /b c:\TEST | findstr /vi "\I_" > c:\TEST\List.txt

Upvotes: 1

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