Batch Delete Files From File On Cmd Line

Question

I have a long list of file names in a txt file, which I generated using

findstr /M "string here" *.* > c:\files.log

The file is about 3mb. Now i want to delete all of those files. I tried del < c:\files.log but that doesn't work. What should I use?

Answer 1

If you install Cygwin or something similar it's just:

cat files.log | xargs rm

Answer 2

Batch for NT on up supports a FOR loop with special switches

FOR /F seems to fit what you want as it allows input from a file and positional delimiters.

See .. http://ss64.com/nt/for_f.html

You are looking for something like...

for /F "tokens=*" %%a in (files.log) DO DELETE "%%a"

Answer 3

This should work:

for /f "tokens=1*" %a in (filelist.txt) do del %a