On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:07:01 -0700, "james"

>I am trying to write a batch file that takes as an arquemant a directory to
>look for, searches the current directory and all sub directories for a
>directory of that name and deletes each one it finds.
>The command that I am using is

>FOR /F %%i IN ('dir /b /s /ad %1*') DO rd %%i

>and the problem is that if I have a directory structure say dir\dir the
>script deletes the sub directoryvand not the top level dir.

You may be up against the bottom-up way /F processes subtrees.

One way might be to expand the For statement to Set a variable when a
match is found, and then loop to re-run the entire For statement until
this variable is no longer Set. Messy if applied to laaarge subtrees.



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