Originally Posted By: brewdude6
Is there a "dir" directive missing?


Got it. I agree with Bryce and Sealeopard, the Dirplus routine was churning for over 13 hours with no output. This method is working fine.

 Code:
	Shell '%comspec% /c dir "f:\reports\trans\monthold" /s /a-d | find /i "' + $reporttype + '" > e:\admin\"'+$reporttype+'".txt'
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