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user2536125
user2536125

Reputation: 245

| was unexpected at this time

I am trying to locate a file using dir and findstr to be able to specify the extension and a pattern in the name.

For this, I use the following command:

for /f %%a in ('dir /b /s *.pm  | findstr /i "MyPattern"') do (set "name=%%a")

The question has been mostly answered in here, here and in here.

But none of them applied to my case.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 425

Answers (1)

double-beep
double-beep

Reputation: 5504

You need to escape the pipe (|) because it breaks the for loop just because it is always executed with higher prio. Modify your code like the following:

for /f %%a in ('dir /b /s *.pm  ^| findstr /i "MyPattern"') do (set "name=%%a")

and it should work.

Upvotes: 1

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