From: accubackup1@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 5:16:17 PM UTC-4, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:   
   > On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:55:21 -0400    
   > Zaidy036 wrote:    
   >    
   > > On 3/21/2023 3:31 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:    
   > > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:08:44 -0700 (PDT)    
   > > > Accu Backup wrote:    
   > > >    
   > > >> I'm trying to output a list of all .txt and .csv files located within a   
   certain directory and all its subdirectories. On Windows Server 2019, I'm   
   running...    
   > > >>    
   > > >> C:\>dir "e:\shareddata\folder1\folder2" \*.txt \*.csv \s \b >   
   "c:\users\username\desktop\output.txt"    
   > > >>    
   > > >> or similar variants and getting mixed results. When I have the \s   
   included, I am getting ALL files... not just the ones I want. I also got only   
   the wanted files but on the entire drive... not just from the folder I need.   
   What am I missing here? My    
   goal is to review the list of files and then use a similar batch to delete   
   them if there is nothing I need to keep. Thanks.    
   > > >    
   > > > Your option slashes are the wrong way round! Untested:    
   > > >    
   > > > dir "e:\shareddata\folder1\folder2" \*.txt \*.csv /s /b    
   > > >    
   > > Besides the error mentioned I am confused by the \*. usage. Is that a    
   > > server method or did you mean to use some form of "FOR" and that is a    
   > > shorthand?    
   > >    
   > > In Windows batch:    
   > > FOR %f IN (txt csv) DO DIR "e:\shareddata\folder1\folder2\*.%f" /S /B    
   > > -or-    
   > > DIR "e:\shareddata\folder1\folder2\*.txt" /S /B    
   > > DIR "e:\shareddata\folder1\folder2\*.csv" /S /B   
   > That looks much better!   
   > --    
   > Bah, and indeed Humbug.   
   Thank you for the help.  The \*. usage I found here...   
   https://www.howtogeek.com/363639/how-to-use-the-dir-command-in-windows/   
   near the end of the article.  This is working.  How can I modify these to   
   DELETE the found files and EXCLUDE found files that may be in certain   
   sub-folders in this directory?  For example, this folder has many folders   
   named Methods within it and I may    
   not want to delete .txt files that are found in any Methods folder.   
      
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