dos or fso or rm or anything! help

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ok here's what I have and what I need.

say I have base directory and in it there are say 25 directories and in those directories are between 1 and 50 other directories and in those many others. etc ect :)

BaseDir
       Dir1
           subdir 1
           subdir 2
       Dir2
           subdir 1
       Dir3
           subdir 1
           subdir 2
           subdir 3

I need to delete anything beyond subdir x
they are just directories and no files

it can be fso or a dos batch command or most nix commands [via cygwin, so awk,grep,whatever is not out of the question]

I have tried loops and whatnot and I still end up just cursing.

please help me get some sleep in the next couple of days.

Posted 25-Jul-11 1:05am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2011-07-25T01:57:00

Solution 1

del /s *.*
rm -rf *

etc.

Posted 25-Jul-11 1:57am

Richard MacCutchan

Member 2002284 · Answer 2 · 2011-07-25T04:49:00

Solution 2

that was extremely helpfull. NOT

I know how to do all that what I needed was some kind of script that would do it automatically.

Posted 25-Jul-11 4:49am

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Richard MacCutchan 25-Jul-11 12:25pm

What do you mean some kind of script that would do it automatically? Nothing in your original question makes clear what you want to do beyond deleting a part of a directory tree.

Member 2002284 25-Jul-11 13:37pm

it can be fso or a dos batch command or most nix commands [via cygwin, so awk,grep,whatever is not out of the question]

Richard MacCutchan 26-Jul-11 9:50am

You stated that in your original question, and it makes no more sense now than it did there. Try explaining exactly what you are trying to do that requires a script.