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Posted: **19 Aug 2019 13:37**

Good evening,

I have this piece of code . . .

for %%R in ("%userprofile%\Desktop\x.txt") do if %%~zR equ 0 del "%userprofile%\Desktop\x.txt"

. . . which works perfectly. What I can't figure out is how to include a message that says "NO ERRORS FOUND, deleting file." I have tried several IF...ELSE statements but can't quite get it right. If the file has data in then obviously there isn't a problem and the batch file displays the message "The file was created successfully". So, something like . . .

If the .txt file has data then output the message "The file was created successfully"
If the .txt file doesn't have data then output the message "NO ERRORS FOUND, deleting file.".

I was going to post the things I have tried but there has been quite a few!!!

Thanks in advance.

Posted: **19 Aug 2019 14:57**

Probably this way.

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for %%R in ("%userprofile%\Desktop\x.txt") do if %%~zR equ 0 (
  del "%userprofile%\Desktop\x.txt"
  echo NO ERRORS FOUND, deleting file.
) else echo The file was created successfully.

Steffen

Posted: **19 Aug 2019 15:02**

Brilliant aGerman, your script works perfectly!

Just before you posted I came up with . . .

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for %%R in ("%userprofile%\Desktop\x.txt") do if %%~zR NEQ 0 echo The file was created successfully!
for %%R in ("%userprofile%\Desktop\x.txt") do if %%~zR EQU 0 echo NO PROBLEMS FOUND, deleting the desktop file . . . & del "%userprofile%\Desktop\x.txt"

Not very nice or elegant I know!

Thank you so much, it is appreciated.

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