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DIR command assistance

Asked by: SRC_IT

I am in need of a txt file that provides a listing of files with the name archive*.pst*, including the size of the file and the owner. Using the following command, I have been able to get most of what I want, but I would also like the list to include the location of the file. I want the format to be bare, but haven't found a way to include the file location in that format. The command I am currently using:  dir archive*.pst* /s /q |find "/" >c:\archive.txt gives me the format I want, but sometimes the owner of the file is listed as BUILTIN\Administrators, so that doesn't tell me who the file belongs to. Having the file location would.  I'm looking for a 1-line per entry format so I can pull the file into Excel and sort as necessary. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance.

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2009-10-22 at 07:04:20ID24834523
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Answers

 

by: dragon-itPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:19:03ID: 25634493

OK.  If you use a bare directory listing (/b) and a for command it can show you all this and more (look at the options in for /? towards the end).
e.g.

@Echo off
set output="c:\output.csv"
del %outpu% 2>NUL
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /s /a-d "C:\*.pst"') do (echo %%fa,%%~dpa,%%~za)>>%output%
start excel %output%

That will output a CSV text file consisting of the

filename,drive & path,file size

Does that help? Can soon re-arrange the format, but when you've got a path in there with spaces best to delimit the file with something.

Steve

 

by: dragon-itPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:21:26ID: 25634522

Sorry make that first %%fa %%~na - pasted it wrong:

@Echo off
set output="c:\output.csv"
del %outpu% 2>NUL
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /s /a-d "C:\*.pst"') do (echo %%~na,%%~dpa,%%~za)>>%output%
start excel %output%
                                              
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by: SRC_ITPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:25:23ID: 25634563

OK, before I try this....what is the del line?  Makes me a little nervous!

 

by: SRC_ITPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:26:21ID: 25634576

And the start excel %output%???  Am I starting Excel with that line, because I can't do that from the file server.

 

by: Shift-3Posted on 2009-10-22 at 07:28:02ID: 25634604

Here's a version which includes the file owner.

Paste the script below into a text file with a .cmd extension.  Customize the value of the folder variable on line 4 with the location of the root folder.  Running the script will write information to a comma-delimited text file.

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
 
set folder=c:\files
set mask=archive*.pst*
set report=report.csv
 
echo Filename,Path,Size (bytes),Owner > "%report%"
 
for /F "tokens=*" %%G in ('dir "%folder%\%mask%" /a:-d /b /s') do (
 for /F "tokens=5" %%H in ('dir "%%G" /q ^| find "/"') do (
  set owner=%%H
 )
 echo "%%~nxG","%%G",%%~zG,!owner! >> "%report%"
)

                                              
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by: dragon-itPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:32:45ID: 25634666

To explain

set output="c:\output.csv"

Creates variable called output with the filename of where you want the output


del %output% 2>NUL

removes the above file, hiding any errors (i.e. if it has been run before (spot the obvious mistake, "t" was missed off it.  Without this each line is appended.

for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /s /a-d "C:\*.pst"') do (echo %%~na,%%~dpa,%%~za)>>%output%

Run down the output of each line from the dir output above which is bare listing, subdirectories, but don;t show directory names of all *.pst files in that dir.  Can easily be "D:\somedir\arc*.pst" or whatever you like.  It passes each file in turn to %%a which you can then return the name (%%~na), drive & path (%%~dpa) and size (%%~za).  Sadly there is no owner available if you needed that, though I guess they are in the user's home drives or similar?

start excel %output%

As this was a CSV formatted file just put this in for convenience at the end to launch excel with the CSV loade into it.  You can remove the line or replace it with  notepad %output% to show in notepad if you like.

Steve

 

by: SRC_ITPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:33:01ID: 25634673

Shift-3,
worked perfectly. Thanks.

 

by: dragon-itPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:34:08ID: 25634686

You can always just open the resulting CSV from a mapped drive to your PC with Excel on... or indeed run the script across the network, though it would most likely be a lot slower than a locally run script on the server.

 

by: SRC_ITPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:36:29ID: 31644550

Thanks to both of you for your help. Shift-3, your script is what I used, but dragon-it, thanks for the explanation, and I will file it away for future use as well. Splitting points, thanks to both of you for your time!

 

by: dragon-itPosted on 2009-10-22 at 07:38:12ID: 25634736

Thanks, sounds fair to me.... both basically the same, Shift-3's just a bit less hurried +the owner check :-)

Steve

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