How to select all files with the same name, but with extension html

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I have hundreds of HTML files that have geen converted to PDF.
File names (without extensions) are the same, so
blah-blah.html and
blah-blah.pdf

They are all in the same folder, I expect some 80-90 pct have these 'same file names'.
There are also a bunch of files that have not been convered.

I'd like to delete all those converted html-type files, i.e. the html files that have a .pdf version with the same file name.

Any suggestions?

Deleting them one by one is a timeconsuming and boring exercise...

Thanks.

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try to modify this script:

or modify this:

3

... or this:

4

Many thanks to you all.
Am going to give it a try. A bit more complex than I initially thought, to be honest.
Thanks again!

5

You can use the last example almost verbatim.

FileExt(file_name)==".html"

Exists("" + Parent(fullpath) + "\" + Stem(file_name) + ".pdf")

Putting it together:

Select FILTERDEF =FileExt(file_name)==".html" && Exists("" + Parent(fullpath) + "\" + Stem(file_name) + ".pdf")
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You can also Group by extension and click the group header to select them all.

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Another possibility is something like this:

Select SIMILARBASE
Select ~*.(html|htm) DESELECT

That will look at what is currently selected and then:

  • Select everything with the same name stem but a different extension.
  • Deselect anything that isn't a .html or .htm file.

(The original selection of non-html files will be deselected as well, which is presumably wanted if you intend to delete the selected files as the next step.)

(You could also add Select * TYPE=dirs DESELECT at the end to explicitly deselect the folders, if you're worried about folders with .html or .htm at the end of their names.)

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