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Philip Zx
Philip Zx

Reputation: 15

Read full file path from text file and return file name with extension

I am trying to make a text file filter which filters a particular word from the text using a Windows .

My code:

findstr ".txt" filename.txt > name.txt

filename.txt:

C:\Users\PhilipRamya\Desktop\fruits.txt

Expected output in name.txt 

fruits.txt

Actual output in name.txt

C:\Users\PhilipRamya\Desktop\fruits.txt

Upvotes: 0

Views: 481

Answers (1)

Mofi
Mofi

Reputation: 49216

I don't see any reason to use findstr.exe or find.exe in directory %SystemRoot%\System32 in this case to first filter the list of full qualified file names in list file filename.txt before processing the filtered file names further with command FOR. It is better in my point of view to directly process the list file with FOR.

@echo off
(for /F "usebackq eol=| delims=" %%I in ("filename.txt") do if /I "%%~xI" == ".txt" echo %%~nxI)>name.txt

For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.

  • echo /?
  • for /?
  • if /?

Upvotes: 1

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