I would like to automate file deletion across different folders/subfolders. There are a couple of situations where this would be handy:
1) deleting all the leftover ~*.* files from all my user shares on my file server.
2) deleting all the temporary internet files from all my user profiles. (running NT4 terminal services – I can get much quicker login times if I keep the profiles small.)
In each case, the paths for a given deletion would be congruent, i.e. for 1), the path would always be \\fileserver\%username%\personal\ then I would want to del ~*.* for 2), the path would be \\fileserver\profiles\%username%\tempor~1\ then I would del *.*
I tried making a .bat file and then calling the variable %username% from a text file, but the text file was too big once I got all my usernames in there.
Any suggestions?