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user3310334
user3310334

Reputation:

In cmd how can I list folders that contain files with a specific extension?

Using just the command prompt or a batch script, I would like to look inside my current directory and all subdirectories for folders containing a specific filetype.

So, example:

Say I am in directory F:\dir\one\, and F:\dir\one\ looks like this:

F:\dir\one\
|
+--F:\dir\one\two\
|  |
|  +--file.c
|
+--F:\dir\one\three\
|  |
|  +--work.py
|  |
|  +--F:\dir\one\three\four\
|  |  |
|  |  +--file2.c

And I ran my command/script looking for *.c files, I would expect an output of

>F:\dir\one\two
>F:\dir\one\three\four

because those folders contain *.c files.

How could I do this?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 7639

Answers (2)

Rafal B
Rafal B

Reputation: 21

This:

for /r %a in (.) do @if exist "%~fa*.c" echo %~fa

works for current directory but it doesn't if you specify in which directory you would like to have result:

for /r %a in ('F:\dir\one') do @if exist "%~fa*.c" echo %~fa

it just hangs. I tried 'F:\dir\one' and "F:\dir\one" and 'F:\dir\one\' and "F:\dir\one\"

Upvotes: 0

MC ND
MC ND

Reputation: 70923

To be run from command line. For batch files, percent signs need to be escaped, replacing % with %%

for /r %a in (.) do @if exist "%~fa\*.c" echo %~fa

Upvotes: 9

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