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Batch file to take list of .txt files and input as variables

Asked by dwarner8 in MS DOS, Miscellaneous Security

Tags: BATCH

I need a batch file to list a given directory by just text files in a flat format and input them into a variable a user can choose, for instance

dir *.txt /b

the contents would then show

something.txt
somethingelse.txt

then I would like to take the files listed and input them into choices using set command so user can select what files he wishes to review

1. something.txt
2. somethingelse.txt

Please select your first file to compare:

the user would then enter whatever number corresponds to the filename,

the program then loops and gets second file name to compare

the program should now have 2 filenames stored in variables so I can use them to compare the deltas between 2 files.

Background:

Each week we run a script on the windows directory which searches for all .exe, bat, com, cmd, and dll files and pipes the output to a textfile named after the computer and the date. Then a week later, the admin can run this again and see what has changed since the last run. This is obviously for security. I can run the compare manually but the system is being delivered and it would be much better if we did the work for them.

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Batch file to take list of .txt files and input as variables

Asked by dwarner8 in MS DOS, Miscellaneous Security

Tags: BATCH

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