There are some kids at my school who have installed games like halo and grand THEFT AUTO and other games on the school computers. I am in internship and have been put in charge of deleting the games from the school computers. I am wondering how I can get the directory name.

What I am doing so far is running a
Code: [Select]dir /b /s halo.exe >> location.txt

to find the location of the file. Once I find the location, I would like to be able to delete that entire folder.

Thanks for any HELP that is given,
Christry this. Use with care.

set filename=halo.exe
for /f "delims==" %%D in ('dir /s /b %filename%') do (
     ECHO %filename% found in folder %%~dpD
     echo Press a key to remove all programs in that folder
     echo and then delete it.
     echo.
     echo Hold down Ctrl  and press C to abort.
     echo.
     pause
     echo 
     echo deleting files in %%~dpD
     del %%~dpD\*.* && echo OK
     echo removing folder
     rd %%~dpD && echo OK
     )
 
     
thanks so much, I am going to see if that works today and post back.

Works quite well. One more thing. I was looking around and saw this
Code: [Select]for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=." %%a in (proxy.txt) do (
     ping %%a.%%b.%%c.%%d -n 3
     )
and was wondering how I could read a file using that.

Would I do something like this
Code: [Select]for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%a in (games.txt) do (
     set filename=%%a

     for /f "delims==" %%D in ('dir /s /b %filename%') do (
        echo %filename% found in folder %%~dpD >> locations.txt
        echo deleting files in %%~dpD >> locations.txt
        echo removing folder >> locations.txt
        rmdir /s /q "%%~dpD" && echo OK >> locations.txt
     )
 )

Not sure if that is correct but it was worth a shot.sorry for the bump but I ended up editing my last post like 8 hours after I posted so I haven't gotten a reply. I tried to work on it my self, but it started to delete my desktop, even though I don't have a game there. and it wasn't out putting what I wanted it to.

I have changed my original idea and would like to do something like this.

nameoffile.exe:Searching for String