roy ashbrook

Stupid Windows Shell Scripting Tricks

2008-02-18

If you’ve never used the ‘for’ command in windows, it is your friend. It longs for you to use it! It is ‘Da Bizzle’ as the kids say. Here’s a silly little example of using it to delete all of the temporary internet files from all of the profiles on a machine.

cd "C:\Documents and Settings"
for /f "tokens=*" %i in ('dir /b') do rd /s ".\%i\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\" 

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