Windows batch file help

mandag den 26. december 2022 kl. 19.39.18 UTC+1 skrev DecadentLinux...@decadence.org:
> John Larkin <jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in 
> news:ifsgqhp406799vf7l...@4ax.com:
> > 
> > 
> > Given a folder C:\Protos, I want a batch file to find all 
> > sub-folders, possibly a few levels deep, called OLD, and delete 
> > all of them. I can't make that work. 
> > 
> > When we develop a prototype PCB, we name iterations board1, 
> > board2, etc, and drag the old ones into an OLD folder until it's 
> > done. Spice folders get a OLD sub-folder too. 
> > 
> > Windows batch files don't make a lot of sense to me. Too many 
> > ambiguities. 
> > 
> > For example, 
> > 
> > C:\Protos\Z540_P940_Load_Board\PCB\OLD 
> > 
> > is full of obsolete iterations.
> Windows 10 allows one to have a Linux session within windows. 
> Linux batch scripting is far more advanced. 
> 
> It might not like the NTFS thing though. 

WSL is fully integrated with windows, just cd to  \mnt\c in linux

On 2022-12-25, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2022 11:35:12 -0800 (PST), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
><langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:
>
>>s&oslash;ndag den 25. december 2022 kl. 17.04.20 UTC+1 skrev John Larkin:
>>> Given a folder C:\Protos, I want a batch file to find all sub-folders, 
>>> possibly a few levels deep, called OLD, and delete all of them. I 
>>> can't make that work. 
>>> 
>>> When we develop a prototype PCB, we name iterations board1, board2, 
>>> etc, and drag the old ones into an OLD folder until it's done. Spice 
>>> folders get a OLD sub-folder too. 
>>> 
>>> Windows batch files don't make a lot of sense to me. Too many 
>>> ambiguities. 
>>> 
>>> For example, 
>>> 
>>> C:\Protos\Z540_P940_Load_Board\PCB\OLD 
>>> 
>>> is full of obsolete iterations.
>>
>>https://code.adonline.id.au/powershell-delete-folders-based-on-name/
>>
>>?
>
> Yikes. Maybe I'll just have someone do it.
>
> I could write a PowerBasic program, I guess.

maybe use a port of GNU find.
https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/findutils.htm

 "C:\path_to\find.exe  C:\Protos -name OLD -type d -delete"
 
-- 
  Jasen.

On 25-12-2022 17:04, John Larkin wrote:
> 
> 
> Given a folder C:\Protos, I want a batch file to find all sub-folders,
> possibly a few levels deep, called OLD, and delete all of them. I
> can't make that work.
> 
> When we develop a prototype PCB, we name iterations  board1, board2,
> etc, and drag the old ones into an OLD folder until it's done. Spice
> folders get a OLD sub-folder too.
> 
> Windows batch files don't make a lot of sense to me. Too many
> ambiguities.
> 
> For example,
> 
> C:\Protos\Z540_P940_Load_Board\PCB\OLD
> 
> is full of obsolete iterations.
> 
> 
Use Total Commander. To a "Search", feed the results back to the active 
window, Delete