CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windows-7batch-filecommand-promptcmd
Bojan Komazec
Bojan Komazec

Reputation: 9536

Listing all subdirectories with a specified name

I am trying to get a list of paths of all subdirectories (recursively) which have some specified name, e.g. "bin". The problem is that if current directory contains subdirectory of that name, DIR command will be executed only within that subdirectory, ignoring other subdirectories.

Example: 

C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH>dir *bin* /ad /s /b
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\bin
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\Apache\2bin
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\Apache\bin
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\Apache\bin1
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\C#\ConsoleApps\MiscTests\bin

C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH>dir bin* /ad /s /b
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\bin
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\Apache\bin
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\Apache\bin1
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\C#\ConsoleApps\MiscTests\bin

C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH>dir bin /ad /s /b
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\bin\test    

C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH>rmdir bin /s /q

C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH>dir bin /ad /s /b
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\Apache\bin
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\C#\ConsoleApps\MiscTests\bin

C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH>

dir *bin* /ad /s /b outputs all subdirectories that have bin in their name. And this output is ok. Same with dir bin* /ad /s /b which outputs all subdirectories which name begins with bin. But dir bin /ad /s /b outputs only the content of the first child of the current directory which has name bin. Desired output is:

C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\bin
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\Apache\bin
C:\DEVELOPMENT\RESEARCH\C#\ConsoleApps\MiscTests\bin

How can I achieve this?

NOTE: If current directory does not contain bin child, output is as expected. (I deleted bin child to show this)

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7378

Answers (2)

Aacini
Aacini

Reputation: 67236

This should work:

for /R /D %A in (*bin*) do echo %A

Upvotes: 8

Ryan
Ryan

Reputation: 8005

If your current directory contains a bin subdirectory, then it is difficult using standard DOS commands. I think you have three basic options:

# Option 1: FOR and check directory existance (modified from MBu's answer - the
# original answer just appended 'bin' to all directories whether it existed or not)
# (replace the 'echo %A' with your desired action)
for /r /d %A in (bin) do if exist %A\NUL echo %A

# Option 2: PowerShell (second item is if you need to verify it is a directory)
Get-ChildItem -filter bin -recurse
Get-ChildItem -filter bin -recurse |? { $_.Attributes -match 'Directory' }

# Option 3: Use UNIX/Cygwin find.exe (not to be confused in DOS find)
# (you can locate on the net, such as GNU Utilities for Win32)
find.exe . -name bin
find.exe . -name bin -type d

Upvotes: 6

Related Questions