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windows workstation capable scripting help

Asked by j8ear in Windows Batch Scripting, Perl Programming Language, Scripting Languages

Here's my scripting need sitch:

I have 10000 plus directories, within each are a few files that are essentially "hosts" files from a windows workstation. This is all sloppily pulled by SMS, and extracted from a SQL DB I think. The SMS folks and the SQL DBs are no longer in the picture. My directory and file names are codes that apparently relate back to data in the DB.

I need to find the files within each directory that match the default hosts file (usually located here: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc) on a windows workstation and delete them. Then I need to delete empty directories.

This should leave me only with directories which contain hosts files that DO NOT match the default hosts file from a windows workstation.

I'm told this should be relatively easy with a batch file doing some FOR and FC commands, directory "looping," and error level output reading?

Apparently this is 5-10 lines of code.  Any help would be most greatfully appreciated.

I've attached a small sampling of the directory structure and a copy of the windows default "hosts" file.
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hosts-test2.zip (66 KB) (File Type Details) 
zip file containing sample of data and a default windows "hosts" file
 
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