Hope someone can help -- I need to delete about 50 unrelated files (with
no easily-matching patterns in their filenames) from a single directory.
I need to do this on the same directory on several different servers. I
have all 50 of these filenames to be deleted inside a text file. Is
there some way in XP to easily delete all 50 of these files, perhaps
using my text file as some sort of input file? Maybe a third-party
utility of some sort? Thanks.

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> Hope someone can help -- I need to delete about 50 unrelated
> files (with no easily-matching patterns in their filenames)
> from a single directory. I need to do this on the same
> directory on several different servers. I have all 50 of
> these filenames to be deleted inside a text file. Is there
> some way in XP to easily delete all 50 of these files, perhaps
> using my text file as some sort of input file? Maybe a
> third-party utility of some sort? Thanks.
>
if you know DOS you can turn your .txt files into a .bat file
("batch" file), with the string "del" without the quotes in front
of each extended file name (including drive letter and folder
names). A batch file is like a script, Windows DOS emulator will
execute each line as if you typed it individually in a Run box.
I've never actually tried this so at least part of my suggestion
may be bogus.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"Surely you jest - and don't call me Shirley!" - from the movie
"Airplane!"

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> Hope someone can help -- I need to delete about 50 unrelated files (with
> no easily-matching patterns in their filenames) from a single directory.
> I need to do this on the same directory on several different servers. I
> have all 50 of these filenames to be deleted inside a text file. Is
> there some way in XP to easily delete all 50 of these files, perhaps
> using my text file as some sort of input file? Maybe a third-party
> utility of some sort? Thanks.

You can do this with a batch file like so:
@echo off
set FileList=c:\files.txt
set Target=d:\User Files
for /F "tokens=*" %%a in ('type "FileList"') do echo del "%Target%\%%a"

Remove the word "echo" in the last line to activate the batch
file. Set "Target" to the desired folder name, e.g.
\\SomeServer\d$\Accounting