MS-DOS find command

Question

I have the following command:

find Acc*\bin\Debug\*.pdb > temp.txt

Looking in temp.txt, I have:

Accounting/bin/Debug/Accounting.pdb
Accounting/bin/Debug/BackendProcess.pdb

NOTE the forward slashes. Why does it output file names like this? And how do I get it to output backslashes, so I can use del on those files?

Thanks

Answer 1

find looks for a search string in files. Perhaps you are looking for something like dir *.pdb /S /B > temp.txt instead?

Answer 2

I'm looking to list the files with the wildcards I mentioned. Dir cannot do that. Find works fine if the output is in the console:

find Acc*\bin\Debug\*.pdb

will output

Accounting\bin\Debug\Accounting.pdb
Accounting\bin\Debug\BackendProcess.pd

It's just the file redirection that goes wrong.

Answer 3

It looks like you use a poor port of the UNIX find(1) command and not the (formerly-DOS) find utility. Since you apparently have those tools on your machine anyway you can just use rm(1) instead of del on those files.

Another option is to iterate over the output and replace the virgule by a backslash (assuming a batch file here):

setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %%x in ('find Acc*\bin\Debug\*.pdb') do (
    set fn=%%x
    set fn=!fn:/=\!
    >>temp.txt echo.!fn!
)

Answer 4

I think you used some sort of port for find(1) on DOS. if you have find, i think you may also have sed as well.. and then...

find condition | sed 's/\//\/g'

this should do the job.

otherwise, follow what @Johannes Rössel said.