Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference

Name

forfilesRK

Synopsis

forfiles [selection-options] [-c"command"]

Perform a command on each file in a list. (The default action is to display the filename.)

Options

-c "command "

Specify the command to execute. The following case-sensitive constructs are available for use within commands:

@FILE	Current filename
@FNAME_WITHOUT_EXT	Bare filename
@EXT	File extension
@PATH	Directory location of fil
@RELPATH	Directory location of file, relative to the current directory
@ISDIR	TRUE /FALSE as appropriate
@FSIZE	File size
@FDATE	File modification date:yyyymmdd
@FTIME	File modification time:hhmmss

The default command is cmd /c echo @FILE.

-pdir

Specify the directory location at which to start the search (the default is the current directory).

-m string

Select the files matching the specified string, which may contain wildcards (the default is *.*).

-d+ |-ddmmyyyy | n

Select the files last modified on the specified date, or before (-) or after (+) it. If a number is given instead of a date, select the files modified (-)/not modified (+) within the last n days.

-s

Recurse subdirectories.

-v

Verbose output mode.