pacerier Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 hi may i ask, how do we go about detecting a file with the extension let's say .abc in all folders of c:\ drive? i tried if exist c:\*.abc echo detected however this only checks for the root folder and not the subfolders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Try this: setlocaldir /s /b c:\*.abc >c:\dir.txtset detected=no.nofor /f "delims=;" %%i in (c:\dir.txt) do (set detected=%%i)if "%detected%"=="no.no" goto endecho file detected: %detected%:endendlocal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacerier Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 (edited) hi thanks a lot, erm mind explaining? cause im a noob thxi know dir /s /b c:\*.abc is to find the file but what does >c:\dir.txt does? Edited September 4, 2006 by pacerier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3incarnat0r Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Redirects text output to the c:\dir.txt file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 (edited) isn't this easier?Dir /B /S %1*%2 | FIND "%2">nulECHO Errorlevel is %ERRORLEVEL%@echo off::Check if a file exists in a given directory ::(and subs) by extension - FFBE.CMD::by Jacopo Lazzari::thanks to Rob van Der Woude for the examples, tutorials and ::info on his page http://www.robvanderwoude.com/::and to Simon Sheppard http://www.ss64.com/::-----------------------------------------------------------::Usage: FFBE.CMD <path> <.ext>:: path must end with \::-----------------------------------------------------------::Example FFBE.CMD Dir /B /S %1*%2 | FIND "%2">nulIf %ERRORLEVEL%==0 Echo At least one file with .ext %2 was found(no need to write to a temp file) jaclaz Edited September 4, 2006 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacerier Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 hi thanks, but can we omit >nul? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 hi thanks, but can we omit >nul?Yes, sure, the only difference will be that the output of the command will be shown on screen, i.e. a listing of all found files matching *.ext.the >nul redirects the standard output of the command to a "NULL DEVICE" instead of default "CONSOLE".jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 for /f %i in ('dir /a /b /s *.abc') do echo %i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacerier Posted September 5, 2006 Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 what does /f does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 it changes the way tah the set what's in the parenthesies is handled. open a cmd window and type 'for /?' for more details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda43 Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Of course, Windows made that a bit easier with the "search" function.Just do a search for *.ABC for instance. All files that fill the bill will be displayed on your screen for you to see. That sure makes it easy to find files of a type or name.Using a batch file, if you don't save the result to a txt file, is kind of a waste of effort.If you're going to the effort of writing a batch file, at least use it to its fullest possibility.dir C:\*.ABC /s >result.txtwill not only find the filenames for you but list them in a text file that you can read or print at your leisure.For instance, when I ran: dir C:\*.wab /s >wabfiles.txt on my own PC, I got the following listing saved to a file called 'wabfiles.txt' which I could easily read with Wordpad. Volume in drive C is SATAMAINMAX Volume Serial Number is 3D3B-1CDA Directory of c:\Documents and Settings\Randy\My Documents07/21/2006 03:39 PM 333,334 myadbook.WAB 1 File(s) 333,334 bytes Directory of c:\Documents and Settings\Randy\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book09/10/2006 12:28 AM 453,305 Randy.wab09/10/2006 12:28 AM 265,281 Randy.wab~ 2 File(s) 718,586 bytes Total Files Listed: 3 File(s) 1,051,920 bytes 0 Dir(s) 33,878,114,304 bytes freeGood Luck,Andromeda43 B) PS: My name's NOT Randy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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