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Posted: **31 Oct 2017 07:57**

I had two tasks as below:

.../app/ (under this folder, there are hundreds of files, some are matching the files listed in applist.txt)
.../comp/ (under this folder there are hundreds of subfolders, their names are exactly same as file names under this subfolders, some subfolders are matching the names as listed in applist.txt)

1) delete all files listed in applist.txt within app folder

I have the following code to delete:

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for /f %%i in (applist.txt) do del %%i

2) under folder of comp, there are some subfolders which names are exactly same as files listed in applist.txt, under this subfolder, there is only one file in it with the same name. Now I try to delete this file under this subfolder based upon the above list applist.txt and keep the subfolder

here is the applist.txt

Thanks

Posted: **31 Oct 2017 08:06**

goodywp wrote: 2) under folder of comp, there are some subfolders which names are exactly same as files listed in applist.txt

Does "exactly same" mean that the subfolder's name is e.g. "1240047901010300_cfgCustom.P3P" or is it rather "1240047901010300_cfgCustom"?

Steffen

Posted: **31 Oct 2017 08:12**

1240047901010300_cfgCustom.P3P instead of 1240047901010300_cfgCustom

Thanks

Posted: **31 Oct 2017 08:19**

If the list and the script are in the parent folder of app and comp this should work.

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@echo off & setlocal
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('type "applist.txt"') do (
  del "app\%%i"
  del "comp\%%i\%%i"
)

Steffen

Posted: **31 Oct 2017 12:40**

Thank you Steffen!!

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