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Bris75
Bris75

Reputation: 23

How to use forfiles to delete files without extension

I am using forfiles to delete files older than 7 days from a specific directory using the following script found elsewhere on this forum:

forfiles -p "H:\E-drev" -m *.* /D -7 /C "cmd /c del @path"

This Works fine except I have some files with no extension eg. a file named TA07l. This file is not deleted. I have tried using @fname instead of @path but this does not help.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4096

Answers (2)

aschipfl
aschipfl

Reputation: 34989

The following should work:

forfiles /P "H:\E-drev" /M * /D -7 /C "cmd /C if @isdir==FALSE if @ext==\"\" del @path"

Upvotes: 2

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 2710

You have to use * instead of *.* because otherwise it will search every files that contain a dot .

Update with few examples between * and *. and *.*:

copy nul _onefilewithoutext
copy nul _onefilewith.ext
mkdir _oneFolder
dir /b /a-d *.
_onefilewithoutext

Forfiles command

forfiles /M *. /C "cmd /C echo @relpath"
Error: File Type "*." not found.

forfiles /M * /C "cmd /C echo @relpath"
".\_onefilewith.ext"
".\_onefilewithoutext"
".\_oneFolder"

forfiles /M *.* /C "cmd /C echo @relpath"
".\_onefilewith.ext"

forfiles /M * /C "cmd /C if @isdir==FALSE echo @relpath"
".\_onefilewith.ext"
".\_onefilewithoutext"

forfiles /M * /C "cmd /C if @isdir==FALSE if @ext==\"\" echo @relpath"
".\_onefilewithoutext"

Upvotes: 1

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