Ruddzy Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 (edited) gday folks, trying to delete all avi's under 20mb if ive got a .exe with this code in the same folder as the avi's it works fine for /f "usebackq delims=;" %%A in (`dir /b *sample*.avi`) do If %%~zA LSS 20971520 del "%%A"however when i try and get a bit more inventive, and try the code below, all i get is windows cannot find the pathfor %%A in ('dir "%directory%\*.avi"') do If %%~zA LSS 20971520 del "%%A"any help would be more than appreciatedcheers Edited March 15, 2012 by Ruddzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 (edited) however when i try and get a bit more inventive ....It's not about being inventive, it's about not knowing some command syntax/not experimenting on command line. Try executing in a command prompt:dir "yourpath\*.avi"then try again with:dir /b "yourpath\*.avi"DIr (without /b ) will have a "type" of output (NOT compatible with using the %%A variable), Dir /b will have another "type" of output.And, in any case, you cannot remove the /F in the FOR command!Read:http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.phpAnd, additionally the ~z won't work with "different from current" path. In your posted example, what you want is most probably a .cmd (AND NOT a .exe) like:@ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS.........PUSHD %directory%FOR /F %%A in ('DIR /B "*.avi"') DO IF %%~zA LSS 20971520 ECHO DEL "%%A"POPDthe ECHO is there just to "protect the innocents" .jaclaz Edited March 15, 2012 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 A quick powershell one-liner, for anyone who might be interested:ls C:\somepath\ | ? { $_.Length -lt 20MB } | rm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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