Find String

I want to find this text is a txt file and delete that file if the text is found.
What I have
findstr /M "Dara la salud" *.txt >new.txt
for /f %i in (new.txt) do del %i".txt"

This finds a lot of false positives, what is up?

 

Your FINDSTR command is looking for words that contain either Dara, la, or salud. Use the /C: option.

Code:

for /f "delims=" %i in ('findstr /MC:"Dara la salud" *.txt') do del "%i"

Double the percent signs (%i to %%i) if you use this line in a Batch script rather than in the cmd prompt.

Steffen

 

I tried /r /c /m and it still didn't work, if I cut it down to "Dara" it works.
It finds this file "4.13.2018_9-00-01 AM_1893.txt" but the delete doesn't work.
New code. removed .txt since it is in the string already.
The space in the filename is the issue, how do I get that?


findstr /r /c /M "Dara" *.txt >new.txt

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

 

Did you even read my code?

Already wrong because a colon and the search string needs to follow directly after /c. Option /r is useless in your case.

Because FOR variables are case-sensitiv. %%I is not the same as %%i. Also as soon as the file name contains spaces it won't work unless you defined "delims=". Also enclose the %%i for the del command in quotes for the same reason.

 

The capital I was a paste error - it is not that way in my code. I tried the quotes before I posted and that didn't work.
for /f %%i in (new.txt) do del "%%i"

 

Try
... del /f /a "%%i"
in case your files are read-only or have hidden or system attributes.

 

Thanks for the help, I just removed the date from the filename, didn't really need it - could not remove the space. So that fixed it.

 

You still didn't read my code and recommendations. To get it runing with spaces you also need "delims="

Code:

for /f "delims=" %%i in (new.txt) do del "%%i"

And since you don't even need the temporary file (because you can process the output of FINDSTR directly) the one line in my first reply would have been sufficient. You only have to double the percent signs as I also already wrote.

Code:

for /f "delims=" %%i in ('findstr /MC:"Dara la salud" *.txt') do del "%%i"

 

Cool, thanks for the lesson and getting it working.