Newbie: Exporting results of script to .txt file

[RyanD]

Hi All,

Brand new to this forum and also DOS programming.

I've created a very simple script which should delete all the .DS_Store and thumbs.db files on one of our Windows network shares.

F:
DEL /S /A:H .DS_STORE
DEL /S /A:H ._.DS_STORE
DEL /S /A:H THUMBS.DB
> "*path*\DS_STORE&THUMBS_FTP.txt"
pause

Obviously I would like this to print out a .txt file called DS_STORE&THUMBS_FTP to the path specified, but when I do execute this, no file appears and I can't see any reason for this?

I know the path is correct because if I precede the last line with the 'dir' command it will write a directory listing into a file with that name in the path specified.

Like I said, I'm new to this but I appreciate any help anyone can provide

Another thing I'd like to ask- on this text file, is there a way to create it so the time & date print at the top of it?

Thanks again!

[foxidrive]

Multi posted on other forums.

[penpen]

I never find the crossposts using google...
maybe the googlebot is too slow or i am not clever enough...
nevertheless, the code is an oneliner (2 lines with the pause):

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DEL /S /A:H F:\.DS_STORE F:\._.DS_STORE F:\THUMBS.DB >> "*path*\DS_STORE&THUMBS_FTP.txt"
pause

penpen