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Georgep2000
Georgep2000

Reputation: 39

using batch to find files with a wildcard and print the name to another file

My issue is that i would like to search a folder with a wildcard and then print the name of the file in another batch file. For example: c:\docs\hello.txt (I want to look through this folder with a *.txt search criteria then pass this "hello.txt" to my env.bat with set filename=

So far i can get the filename as below:

echo off
cd %1
if exist filelist.txt del filelist.txt
for /r %%a in (*.txt) do echo %%a > filelist.txt

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5466

Answers (1)

rojo
rojo

Reputation: 24466

search.bat:

@echo off & setlocal
for /r "%~dp0" %%a in (*.txt) do call env.bat "%%~nxa"

env.bat:

@echo off & setlocal
set "filename=%~1"

echo %filename%

search.bat will search the directory in which the script lives recursively for *.txt. For every match, env.bat is called with an argument of the filename.txt (without the full path, if you want the full path, change "%%~nxa" to "%%~fa". See help for in a console window for more info.) env.bat then echoes the variable it set.

Just as an academic exercise, it's also possible to pass filename.txt via stdin rather than as a script argument.

search.bat:

@echo off & setlocal
for /r "%~dp0" %%a in (*.txt) do (@echo %%~nxa|env.bat)

env.bat

@echo off & setlocal
set /P "filename="

echo %filename%

For Eric J., here are the same scripts written in powershell. First is the argument method:

search.ps1

set-executionpolicy remotesigned
gci -recurse -filter *.txt | %{ .\env.ps1 $_.Name }

env.ps1

set-executionpolicy remotesigned
param (
    [string]$filename
)

$filename

And next is the stdin method.

search.ps1

set-executionpolicy remotesigned
gci -recurse -filter *.txt | %{ $_.Name | .\env.ps1 }

env.ps1

set-executionpolicy remotesigned
[string]$filename = $input

$filename

Upvotes: 1

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