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ToxicT
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New to the batch - Folder removal

#1 Post by ToxicT » 04 Jun 2010 05:53

Hi ppl

i have done the following:

cd "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java"
del *.* /F /S /Q /A: R /A: H /A: A
rmdir /s /q "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java"
cls

Now this is to remove a load of temp files java puts in there when browsing. I need these removed which is does fine. However i realise that if that folder does not exist. It seems to start deleting files from C:\ drive, seems random, might be desktop might be windows update folder. How do i stop this from a possible C drive nuke :) cheers

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Re: New to the batch - Folder removal

#2 Post by aGerman » 04 Jun 2010 07:02

Try this

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cd "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java" || goto :eof


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Re: New to the batch - Folder removal

#3 Post by avery_larry » 04 Jun 2010 08:39

rd /s /q "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java"

or if that doesn't work because of hidden/read only files or something:

I guess I don't know if this actually works but:

del "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java\*.*" /F /S /Q /A: R /A: H /A: A


And finally, an "if exist" would work:

if exist "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java" (
cd "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java"
del *.* /F /S /Q /A: R /A: H /A: A
)

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Re: New to the batch - Folder removal

#4 Post by ToxicT » 04 Jun 2010 09:03

Thank you all :)

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Re: New to the batch - Folder removal

#5 Post by ToxicT » 09 Jun 2010 08:32

What is interesting though is when i added this to a test login script it managed to delete the contents of all the folders in the mapped H:\my dcouments lol + the right directory :S

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Re: New to the batch - Folder removal

#6 Post by aGerman » 09 Jun 2010 10:15

If your batch file is on drive H: and you want to switch to another drive (C:) using the "CD" command it will fail without "/d".

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cd /d "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java" || goto :eof

or avery_larry's suggestion

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if exist "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java" (
  cd /d "%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java"
  del *.* /F /S /Q /A: R /A: H /A: A
)


Regards
aGerman

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Re: New to the batch - Folder removal

#7 Post by amel27 » 13 Jun 2010 23:37

w/o del:

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pushd %userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java&& rd /s/q .

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