From: Chris Robinson 

Hold on a tick, I forgot that the disk space is also in the DIR - so yeh, I
changed this to use DIR /B - doh!

Cheers,
Chris ;o)

Chris Robinson wrote:

> Yeh - I tried the bare formatting for DIR already - It's neither here nor
there really.  As long as I have a file that contains the
> original contents to compare the newly created text file to it doesn't really
matter.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion though.
>
> Chris :o)
>
> Tony Ingenoso wrote:
>
> > Oh, DIR /B on an empty directory produces nothing BTW.
> >
> > So something like DIR /B > \foobar produces a zero length file called
foobar.  Simply COMP'ing (or FC'ing) a known zero length file
> > with the DIR results should do it.  If the COMP/FC mismatches, then there's
something in that directory.
> >
> > "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote
in message
news:3efa0b6f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > IF /?  (then check out the EXIST option)
> > >
> > > "Chris Robinson"
 wrote in message
news:3EF9C540.66D7A5AF{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> > > > I have a share set up on one of our PC's that's set to
have Everyone as
> > > > Full Controll.  The idea being that if we get any Virus's that
propogate
> > > > to network shares, we'll know about it.  I want to
write a batch file
> > > > that checks the Directory periodically (I'll use task
scheduler) and,
if
> > > > it finds a file in there, does a NET SEND to my PC so I
know something
> > > > could be wrong.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried a few things so far, but the one I'm working on at the
moment
> > > > is this (NT4, SP6 btw) - Prior to running the batch
file, I've created
a
> > > > text file from "dir > testdir-clean.txt"
that is basically the test
> > > > directory with no files in it (i.e. "Clean"):
> > > >
> > > > *****Start of Batch File*****
> > > >
> > > > dir c:\testdir > testdir-current.txt
> > > > fc /L c:\testdir-clean.txt c:\testdir-current.txt
> > > >
> > > > IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO _POSSVIRUS
> > > >
> > > > IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO _NOVIRUS
> > > >
> > > > :_POSSVIRUS
> > > > NET SEND mypcname File detected
> > > > EXIT
> > > >
> > > > :_NOVIRUS
> > > > EXIT
> > > >
> > > > *****End Of batch File*****
> > > >
> > > > So, "fc" is file compare and "/L"
compares the files as ASCII text.
The
> > > > idea being that if it detects a difference, then another file is
present
> > > > in the directory.  I'm not 100% certain on the use of
the ERRORLEVEL
> > > > section though and this is the bit that doesn't seem to
be working atm
-
> > > > any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Chris.
> > > >
> > >
> > >

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