Need VB script to scan folders and sub folders for file extensions

You may have to tweak a bit.. I just put the code here.
A good reference for these objects is:
http://www.devguru.com/technologies/vbscript/quickref/file.html

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ShowWAVs FSO.GetFolder("C:\Scripts")
 
Sub ShowWAVs(Folder)
    For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
        For Each File in Folder.Files
              if right(File,4)=".wav" then
                     Wscript.Echo File.Path
              end if
        Next
        ShowSubFolders Subfolder
    Next
End Sub
	

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as for deleting you could do the same sort of thing.
change .wav to .pk (probably make a different function).

Or you could make a simple .bat file and use the erase command
rem (put the following in a batch file)
@echo off
cd whatever folder
erase *.pk /S /F /Q
rem (end of batch file)


oops...(the code in the previous post should be as follows--see below)

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ShowWAVs FSO.GetFolder("C:\Scripts")
 
Sub ShowWAVs(Folder)
    For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
        For Each File in Folder.Files
              if right(File,4)=".wav" then
                     Wscript.Echo File.Path
              end if
        Next
        ShowWavs Subfolder
    Next
End Sub

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Thanks for the help!  I am not good at scripting.  Your code scans and echos each .wav found within the provided location.  Can you edit your code to write the results to a text file?

be sure to change the c:\scripts to whatever you need

Set OutFile = fso.CreateTextFile("e:\ezine\newsletter13.txt", True)
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
ShowWAVs FSO.GetFolder("C:\Scripts")
OutFile.Close
 
Sub ShowWAVs(Folder)
    For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
        For Each File in Folder.Files
              if right(File,4)=".wav" then
                     OutFile.WriteLine(File.Path)
              end if
        Next
        ShowWavs Subfolder
    Next
End Sub

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Receiving error on line 1, char 1 - Object required: 'fso'

Works perfect on the .wav finding and reporting.  Can you edit the script for scanning and deleting .pk files as well?  Use the same script, where I just specifiy a folder, then have it scan and delete.

sure...

Basically you just change the action line to perform whatever command.
In the above that would be the line that says:
OutFile.WriteLine(File.Path)

WARNING: The following is UNTESTED.
It should work, but it is deleting files, so you might want a system backup before testing.  It will delete all files from the folder specified and its subfolders having the fileextension given. So if you passed "*.*" you would wipe out everything in the folder and subfolders, so be careful.

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
DeleteFiles FSO.GetFolder("C:\Temp"),".pk"
 
Sub DeleteFiles(Folder,FileExtension)
    For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
        For Each File in Folder.Files
              if right(File,len(FileExtension))=FileExtension then
                     File.Delete(File.Path,True)
              end if
        Next
        DeleteFiles Subfolder
    Next
End Sub

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Just tried the delete script.  I get a 'Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub' error on Line 9, char 49.

I'm sorry, replace that line with this:

File.Delete

Below is what I am using, but it is not deleting any files within C:\Temp.  I also tried using just .pk.

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
DeleteFiles FSO.GetFolder("C:\Temp"),"*.*"
 
Sub DeleteFiles(Folder,FileExtension)
    For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
        For Each File in Folder.Files
              if right(File,len(FileExtension))=FileExtension then
                     File.Delete
              end if
        Next
        DeleteFiles Subfolder
    Next
End Sub

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OK, Sorry about that. I guess I should have tested it. I just thought I could get it right from memory.
This has been tested and works as follows. You should be able to pass *.* as the file extension to delete everything (not recommended). It deletes everything in the path given and all subfolders in that folder.

Or if you want a file extension, pass it without the period, like

TXT for *.txt

The IF line is wrapped below in my view..make sure everything between the word IF and the word then is on one line.

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
DeleteFiles FSO.GetFolder("C:\Temp"),"TXT"
 
 
Sub DeleteFiles(Folder,FileExtension)
    For Each File in Folder.Files
        IF FileExtension="*.*" OR UCASE(FSO.GetExtensionName(File.Path))=UCASE(FileExtension) then
            File.Delete
        end if
    Next
 
    For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
        DeleteFiles Subfolder
    Next
End Sub

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Very close...

The script deletes files in the root of the Temp folder, but throws an error when you have subfolders.
Line 14, Char 9
Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment: 'DeleteFiles'

OOPs, well my test didn't have subfolders.... I think that I forgot to add the extension to that call:

try this:

 DeleteFiles Subfolder, FileExtension

You nailed it!