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Jürgen Steinblock
Jürgen Steinblock

Reputation: 31733

Batch single liner for finding files with directory wildcard

Consider the following directory structure

- Temp\
- Temp\DirA\
- Temp\DirA\Content\
- Temp\DirA\Content\file.txt
- Temp\DirB\
- Temp\DirB\Content\
- Temp\DirB\Content\file.txt

Now I want to list all text files inside the content directories in a single line statement. I would expect something like this to work:

dir Temp\*\Content\*.txt

but it does not (it gives an syntax error). Even forfiles returns an empty result. Is there a convenient way to achive this?

Please note: My real world command will contain multiple wildcards. I don't wanto to combine foreach directory with foreach file.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 59

Answers (1)

woxxom
woxxom

Reputation: 73586

Use recursive dir /s and filter the output by \Content\:

dir /s /b Temp\*.txt Temp\*.log | find "\Content\"

And in case you don't need to list the files in Content\other_folder\ use a regexp:

dir /s /b Temp\*.txt Temp\*.log | findstr /r "\\Content\\[^\\]*$"

Upvotes: 3

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