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Filippo
Filippo

Reputation: 23

For loop in a batch for doing something in the actual path and in all subfolders

I have to send several commands (del, compressing files, etc.) In a folder and its subfolders.

I'm using a for loop and now I'm able to send all the commands in all the subdirectory, but not in the actual path.

In the following what I'm doing (loops in the subfolder, enternig in them, extracting the extension of the files called my-file.*) and then doing several operations inside each subfolder (....),

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b /o:n /ad') do (
REM "delims=" to deal with path containing spaces
cd /d "%%a"
for %%i in (my-file.*) do set EXTENSION=%%~xi
....
)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (3)

double-beep
double-beep

Reputation: 5504

My suggestion would be to use a for /F loop with dir /S command which searches through all subfolders:

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /F "delims= eol=" %%A IN ('dir /S /B /A-D "my-file.*"') do (
    pushed "%%~dpA"
    rem do random stuff here
    popd
)

Note that you don't need to set to a variable the extension, you can access it with %%~xA immediately.

I have enabled delayed expansion since you may set a variable inside the for loop, so you will need to access it with !var! rather than %var%.

Upvotes: 1

robotik
robotik

Reputation: 2007

instead of ('dir /s /b /o:n /ad') use ('cd ^& dir /s /b /o:n /ad')

Upvotes: 2

Dominique
Dominique

Reputation: 17493

You might also use forfiles as in following example:

forfiles /s /M my_file.* /C "cmd /c echo @file:@path,@fname.@ext"

"my_file.log":"C:\tralala\my_file.log","my_file"."log"
"my_file.txt":"C:\tralala\my_file.txt","my_file"."txt"

Upvotes: 0

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