Bat files for ETABS

Overview

• In this tutorial we’ll be using BAT file to automate some of ETABS task
• If you don’t know about what is bat files then read this post first.

ETABS File Cleaner

• we are going to build bat file to clean up ETABS files generated after analysis
• In Bat file we can use del fileName.fileExtension command to delete file in active folder .
• we can use this command to delete a single file which is not great when we have to delete lot of files. To solve this issue, we are going to use wild card instead of specifying file name
• so del *.fileExtension will delete all files with specified file extension
• additionally, we are adding /s option to repeat this same action in all sub folders and /q option to do this quietly without any windows popup to confirm the delete action
• our final command del /s /q "*.Y0A" will delete all files with *.Y0A extension in active folder as well as in sub folder
• now we can add all file extensions which want to remove after ETABS files. You can build your own version, but I’ve already done this for you

  del /s /q "*.Y0A"
  del /s /q "*.Y0B"
  del /s /q "*.Y_"
  del /s /q "*.K_0"
  del /s /q "*.K_E"
  del /s /q "*.K_G"
  del /s /q "*.K_I"
  del /s /q "*.K_J"
  del /s /q "*.K_M"
  del /s /q "*.msh"
  del /s /q "*.OUT"
  del /s /q "*.Y"
  del /s /q "*.Y$$"
  del /s /q "*.Y"
  del /s /q "*.Y_1"
  del /s /q "*.Y00"
  del /s /q "*.YOA"
  del /s /q "*.YOB"
  del /s /q "*.Y01"
  del /s /q "*.Y02"
  del /s /q "*.Y03"
  del /s /q "*.Y04"
  del /s /q "*.Y05"
  del /s /q "*.Y06"
  del /s /q "*.Y07"
  del /s /q "*.Y08"
  del /s /q "*.Y09"