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Reclaim gigabytes--Code a recursive script to identify unneeded files

• Tags:
• directory,
• files,
• hard drive,
• recursive

Overview Microsoft Windows machines often contain a couple dozen very large files that, if archived to CD or DVD and then erased, can reclaim anywhere from one to ten gigabytes. This download shows you how to create a script that will traverse the directory structure of a hard drive and processes each file in each sub-directory using a recursive technique. The script identifies and sorts the resulting list of files based on the amount of hard drive space they occupy.

Have you used recursive techniques in your scripts? What are your impressions of the Rexx scripting language?

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