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Hi Folks - I'm trying to developing a purging process but I haven't been able to land on anything that I really like yet so wanted to get your opinion. What is the best way to go about this? Can I merely just use a forfiles to remove an entire directory based on AGE, or should I remove files first a...

Here are the results: Atonio's Solution Start Time : 19:54:44.36 End Time : 19:56:33.82 Shadow's Solution Start Time : 19:57:22.91 End Time : 19:58:54.68 File Size : 797761 lines I stand corrected, Shadow's solution is quicker! My apologies for the incorrect message earlier, I was trying to time thi...

Hello Gents -

With a file of about 700k lines, Antonio's solution is about 30 seconds faster. Pretty significant difference, but both are still unbelieveavly quick.

Thank you again to you both for these solutions!!

Hi Folks - One can read for hours and hours online about the best way to purge files and folders (and sub directories). Everyone seems to have their own iteration. This is what I came up with. Essentially, a path (less the trailing "\" is passed to a function and then I run a FORFILES over it to rem...

WOW! I'm going to play around with these solutions and see what works best.

It looks like Shadow's and Atonio's solution are comparable? I forgot how fast Shadow's code ran so i will need to do some runs times...

Hi both -

I do need token 1 as I do want to extract the year, but this runs is such quick time anymore, keeping that in make little difference.

Absolutely incredible performance gains on this, thank you Shadow!!! Very much appreciated!

Shadow -

Awesome, that's exactly what I did and it's working great. Thank you! Just for my own curiosity, what's the advantage of the SET /A logic vs the previous way of just listing out the different arrays other than a smaller block of code? Any performance increases?

Shadow - Holy Shit** - this is an incredible performance increase!!! It just took a process from ~2 hours down to 8 seconds, wow! Thank you! One thing is, I copied your code before you made your second edit, adding the SET /A logic. Prior to your edit, "Jan" in the file was returning as "01" which i...

Hi Folks - A few months back, Atonio helped me with a chunk of code that determined "min" and "max" month in a data file. I expanded it a bit more to except months in the following formats: 1,01,Jan and January It's working fine. However, performance is not so great. 1600 lines takes a few minutes t...

Thank you T3RRY and Phil!!

T3RRY's solution is working as expected, but is there one that is preferred between the two? WHat is better and why? Or does it not matter?

HI Antonio -

That did the trick, thank you so much!!!

HI Squash - When leveraging your suggestion, it does not yield the correct results. But I need to make the "pbcs" part more generic...It could be any non-numerical string here. THis seems to work with my test, but is it best practice based on my business need? for /F "delims=" %%a in ('findstr "outb...

THis works: for /F "delims=" %%a in ('findstr "outbox/logs/" test.txt ^|FINDSTR /V ".pbcs.log"') But I need to make the "pbcs" part more generic...It could be any non-numerical string here. THis seems to work with my test, but is it best practice based on my business need? for /F "delims=" %%a in ('...

HI AAcini - I just wanted to say thank you again for your solution, it's working great! I am running into once issue. There are times when there is another string between the numerical portion and the .log, which I don't want to factor into the logic. Is there a way to ignore those instances? outbox...

Hi Folks - I have the following script (trimmed down for example purposes): @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET X=T PUSHD "D:\TEMP" IF DEFINED X ( SET "SEARCH="Rule Name","File Name:","Error: 3303","Error: 3304","Error: 3333","Error: 3335","Error: 3336","Error: 3337","does not exist for th...