delete files from a list

[Bobbo Jones]

hi all, I am in need of what I believe is quite a simple .bat file.

I have a large folder with perhaps 16,000 .wav files in it. I need to delete about 4000 of them.
I have a .txt list of the exact file names that I want to delete and would like to automate this.

Can anyone recommend the best way I go about this?

cheers all thanks for your time

[Bobbo Jones]

I tried to search for this, as im sure it will be already out there, but the search facility on the site needed more specifics than 'batch delete' or ' delete files from list'

[foxidrive]

Give this a shot. Remove the echo keyword to enable the deletions. It will only show them on the screen atm.

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@echo off & for /f "delims=" %%a in (list.txt) do echo del "%%a"

[Bobbo Jones]

Ah thanks heaps this works great