HelloI use XP SP3 too and ('dir /b /s /a-d') worked fine. I don't know why it didn't work for you. One thing - if you scan a whole drive there may be a long time when NOTHING seems to be happening.

zerodel.bat

Code: [Select]@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set /a file=0
if exist "%temp%\deletions.bat" del "%temp%\deletions.bat"
for /f "delims==" %%A in ('dir /a /b /s /a-d') do (
if "%%~zA"=="0" (
set /a file+=1
echo [!file!] 0 bytes "%%~dpnxA"
echo del "%%~dpnxA" >>"%temp%\deletions.bat"
)
)
Echo.
Echo Deletions:
type %temp%\deletions.bat

output

Code: [Select]C:\basic>zerodel
[1] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\New Text Document.txt"
[2] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\examples\compiler.log"
[3] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\examples\file\.txt"
[4] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\examples\Windows\COM\MoviePlayer\movctrl\obj\deleteme.txt"
[5] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\examples\Windows\COM\WebBrowser\webctrl\obj\deleteme.txt"
[6] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\FbEdit\Projects\Applications\Convert\Convert.bi"
[7] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\FbEdit\Projects\Samples\DialogApp\DialogApp.Bi"
[8] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\fbmat020\fbmat020\demo\largeint\PrimFlgs.bin"
[9] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\mike\projects\colorbars\compiler.log"
[10] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\mike\projects\graf2\compiler.log"
[11] 0 bytes "C:\basic\freebasic\mike\projects\pi-app\PrimFlgs.bin"
[12] 0 bytes "C:\basic\qbasic\avi.asm"
[13] 0 bytes "C:\basic\qbasic\ETHEREAL.LOG"
[14] 0 bytes "C:\basic\qbasic\RTSP.TXT"
[15] 0 bytes "C:\basic\qbasic\URLDUMP.TXT"

Deletions:
del "C:\basic\freebasic\New Text Document.txt"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\examples\compiler.log"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\examples\file\.txt"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\examples\Windows\COM\MoviePlayer\movctrl\obj\deleteme.txt"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\examples\Windows\COM\WebBrowser\webctrl\obj\deleteme.txt"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\FbEdit\Projects\Applications\Convert\Convert.bi"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\FbEdit\Projects\Samples\DialogApp\DialogApp.Bi"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\fbmat020\fbmat020\demo\largeint\PrimFlgs.bin"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\mike\projects\colorbars\compiler.log"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\mike\projects\graf2\compiler.log"
del "C:\basic\freebasic\mike\projects\pi-app\PrimFlgs.bin"
del "C:\basic\qbasic\avi.asm"
del "C:\basic\qbasic\ETHEREAL.LOG"
del "C:\basic\qbasic\RTSP.TXT"
del "C:\basic\qbasic\URLDUMP.TXT"

C:\basic>
Quote from: Salmon Trout on November 19, 2009, 01:40:07 PM

I use XP SP3 too and ('dir /b /s /a-d') worked fine. I don't know why it didn't work for you. One thing - if you scan a whole drive there may be a long time when nothing seems to be happening.

zerodel.bat

Code: [Select]@echo off
.....
for /f "delims==" %%A in ('dir /a /b /s /a-d') do (
if "%%~zA"=="0" (
set /a file+=1
echo [!file!] 0 bytes "%%~dpnxA"
echo del "%%~dpnxA" >>"%temp%\deletions.bat"
)
)
.....