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Oli
Oli

Reputation: 96

Windows Batch Loop Recursively to find all files with given name

I'm trying my best at writing a windows batch. I want to list all files with given name "ivy.xml" in a directory and all its subdirectories. Example:

So the output should be:

Code:

for /R "Releases" %%f in (ivy.xml) do echo "%%f"

But what I get is this:

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2024

Answers (1)

aschipfl
aschipfl

Reputation: 34909

The for /R loop just iterates through the whole directory tree when there is no wildcard (?, *) to match against, so extend it by if exist to return existing items only:

for /R "Releases" %%f in (ivy.xml) do if exist "%%f" echo "%%f"

If there might be sub-directories called ivy.xml too you could exclude them by this:

for /R "Releases" %%f in (ivy.xml) do if exist "%%f" if not exist "%%f\*" echo "%%f"

Given that there is no file matching the pattern ivy.xml?, you could also just do this:

for /R "Releases" %%f in (ivy.xml?) do echo "%%f"

Another option is the dir command, given that there is no directory called ivy.xml in the root directory Releases, whose contents would then become returned instead:

dir /S /B /A:-D "Releases\ivy.xml"

Yet another option is to use the where command (the PATHEXT variable is cleared in the current session in order not to return files like ivy.xml.exe, for instance):

set "PATHEXT="
where /R "Releases" "ivy.xml"

Upvotes: 2

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