I am trying to create a batch file that will run and open a Powershell script to then run.
this is what i have so far
#echo off
for /r C:\folder %%a in (*) do if "%%~nxa"=="2WNRN4VMS2.txt" set p=%%~dpnxa
if defined p (
echo %p%
) else (
echo File not found
Pause
)
Powershell.exe -Command "& '%p%'"
exit
That is very simple using command DIR for searching for the file recursively in folder C:\folder and all its subfolders and command FOR for assigning the drive and path of found file to an environment variable:
#echo off
for /F "delims=" %%I in ('dir /A-D /B /S "C:\folder\2WNRN4VMS2.txt" 2^>nul') do set "FilePath=%%~dpI" & goto FoundFile
echo File not found
pause
goto :EOF
:FoundFile
Powershell.exe -Command "& '%FilePath%'"
Please note that the string assigned to environment variable FilePath ends with a backslash. Use in PowerShell command line %FilePath:~0,-1% if the path of the file should be passed without a backslash at end.
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
dir /?
echo /?
for /?
goto /?
pause /?
set /?
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I wonder how to check if a batch file is executed by cmd.exe or instead by powershell
I discovered that the ENV variable %CmdCmdLine%is set to something in cmd.exe and should not be set inside a powershell shell.
But if I run a batch file in powershell it temporary assumes a value like C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\path\to\check-interpreter.bat""
Given also the inability of batch to check IF PATTERN I cannot find a way to let my batch file be able to know which command interpreter is running.
In the below code I tried to use findstr /R to check cmd at the start of the line. Infact inside cmd.exe the line should start with cmd.exe ... while in powershell should start with the full path C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c ...
Here my attempt:
#ECHO OFF
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`echo %CmdCmdLine% ^^^| findstr /R
"^cmd"`) DO (
SET var=%%F
)
ECHO var set to: %var%
REM IF [%var%]==[] ECHO var set to: %var%
IF DEFINED var (
ECHO CmdCmdLine founnd!
ECHO VAR : %var%
ECHO COMMANDLINE: %CmdCmdLine%
) ELSE (
ECHO CmdCmdLine NOT found..
)
The problem in the above code is that var is not populated at all:
# cmd.exe
C:\path\to>.\check-interpreter.bat
CmdCmdLine founnd!
COMMANDLINE: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe"
# powershell
PS C:\path\to> .\check-interpreter.bat
CmdCmdLine founnd!
COMMANDLINE: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\path\to\check-
interpreter.bat""
I want to store the result of powershell command in cmd variable as String : powershell -com "(ls | select -Last 1).FullName". How to do this?
CMD does not have a straightforward way of assigning command output to a variable. If the command produces just a single line you could use a for loop
for /f "delims=" %a in ('some_command /to /run') do #set "var=%a"
However, if the command produces multiple lines that will capture only the last line. A better approach would be redirecting the output of the command to a file and then reading that file into a variable:
set "tempfile=C:\temp\out.txt"
>"%tempfile%" some_command /to /run
set /p var=<"%tempfile%"
del /q "%tempfile%"
If you literally need only the last file in a directory you don't need to run PowerShell, though. That much CMD can do by itself:
for /f "delims=" %f in ('dir /a-d /b') do #set "var=%~ff"
Beware that you need to double the % characters when running this from a batch file.
A FOR loop can provide the path to the file. If the default directory sorting order is not the result needed, specify additional command line switches on the DIR command.
FOR /F "delims=" %F IN ('DIR /B') DO (SET "THE_FILE=%~fF")
ECHO THE_FILE is "%THE_FILE%"
In a .bat file script, double the percent characters on FOR loop variables.
FOR /F "delims=" %%F IN ('DIR /B') DO (SET "THE_FILE=%%~fF")
ECHO THE_FILE is "%THE_FILE%"
The .bat file scripts can also run PowerShell scripts. It is best practice to not use aliases such as ls in scripts.
FOR /F "delims=" %%F IN ('powershell -NoLogo -NoProfile -Command ^
"(Get-ChildItem -File | Select-Object -Last 1).FullName"') DO (SET "THE_FILE=%%~fF")
ECHO THE_FILE is "%THE_FILE%"
The problem with cmd here is that I want to get the full paths for
FOLDERs NOT recursive... this dir /ad /b doesn't give full paths and
this dir /ad /b /s does it recursively... – stakowerflol 2 hours ago
That's not a problem, you can return the full file path without recursing.
If you are changing directory to the path you need to check then it's stored in %CD%
If you need the path to whee the Script itself is it's stored in %~dp0
If you want to provide an argument to specify and arbitrary path and get all of the listings it will be that argument term (EG %~1)
With all three possible options you can do the same thing:
Either
Prepend the provided variable to the output of the chosen directory enumeration method
OR
Use a For loop to get the file names at that path and show the result with the full path.
IE
Jenkins_A_Dir.bat
#(
SETLOCAL
ECHO OFF
SET "_Last="
ECHO.%~1 | FIND /I ":\" > NUL && (
SET "_CheckHere=%~1"
)
IF NOT DEFINED _CheckHere (
SET "_CheckHere=C:\Default\Path\When\No Argument\Specified"
)
)
REM Use a For loop to get everything in one variable
FOR %%A IN (
"%_CheckHere%\*"
) DO (
SET "_Last=%%A"
)
ECHO.Found "%_Last%"
REM Use `FOR /F` with DIR, and append the path to Check:
SET "_Last="
FOR /F "Tokens=*" %%A IN ('
DIR /A-D /B "%_CheckHere%\*"
') DO (
SET "_Last=%_CheckHere%\%%A"
)
ECHO.Found "%_Last%"
Of course you don't NEED to have set a variable such as _CheckHere
Instead, you can just replace all of the instances of %_CheckHere% with `%~1 instead, that would work just fine in the above examples too.
Okay, what if you just wanted to check the location the script was running in.
Then either change the above to use SET "_CheckHere=%~dp0" or Replace %_CheckHere% with %~dp0 throughout.
Okay but what if you don't want to set a variable you want to it to use the current working directory.
When then, even easier:
Jenkins_Current_Dir.bat
#(
SETLOCAL
ECHO OFF
SET "_Last="
)
REM Use a For loop to get everything in one variable
FOR %%A IN (
"*"
) DO (
SET "_Last=%%~fA"
)
ECHO.Found "%_Last%"
REM Use `FOR /F` with DIR, and let it append the current working directory to the path:
SET "_Last="
FOR /F "Tokens=*" %%A IN ('
DIR /A-D /B "*"
') DO (
SET "_Last=%%~fA"
)
ECHO.Found "%_Last%"
I have a batch-file which pulls a file from a url using powershell and then outputs/updates the file in a specific directory. But I have many of these directories, the only thing that changes about the path is numbers between \command\ and \setup\. How would I get it to put the file in every folder automatically?
Essentially I would like to output the downloaded text file in each of the install subdirectories of that path.
Also how could I make it happen silently?
#echo off
echo !!! PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE AND UPDATE!!!
pause
powershell -Command "Invoke-WebRequest http://example.com/log/read.txt" -OutFile C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\base\command\234235234\setup\install\read.txt 2>NUL >NUL
echo !!! DONE NOW !!!
echo !!! YOU CAN RE-OPEN NOW !!!
for /d /r "dirname" %%a in (*) do if /i "%%~nxa"=="install" echo %%a
may be useful to you.
Your requirement is unclear. Do you want to copy the file to the install subdirectories of ...\234235234\.. only, or of ...\*\... ?
Replace dirname with the name of the starting directory, be it ...\234235234\.. or C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\base\command and the command I have shown will report all of the install directories contained under dirname. All you need then do is to change the echo to an appropriate copy command - see copy /? from the prompt. You can suppress copy's responses by appending >nul 2>nul (suppress messages and suppress error messages)
for /d /r with * as the list element will process a list of all subdirectories starting at the nominated directory. The if command selects only the leaf directories that match install in either case (/i)
Since
for /d /r ...
does nor detect hidden directories, another approach is
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b /ad "dirname" ') do if /i "%%~nxa"=="sub1" echo %%a
Which in this case should be
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b /ad "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\base\command" ') do if /i "%%~nxa"=="sub1" echo %%a
The dir command produces a list in /b basic (name-only) form, /s including subdirectories, /ad of directories only (names with the directory attribute set). This list is processed line-by-line by for /f without delimiters so the entire line (including spaces, if any) is assigned to %%a and displayed.
I have a batch file I would like to search a folder for any xlsm file updated today.
If it finds an xlsm file from today, it then runs another bat file. If there is no updated file it should run a .vbs file (to send an email) and then exit.
Currently I have the following:
#echo off
set var=%date:~-10%
dir "*.xlsm"|find "%var%">nul&&CALL Update.bat||EXIT
I think I probably need to include some sort of IF/ELSE instead of the current method, but my skills are lacking..
EDIT:
The actual solution I've gone with, based on the answer from #Monacraft is:
#echo off
forfiles /p C:\ /m *.xlsm /d 0 /c "cmd /c call Update.bat"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 start FailEmail.vbs
If using windows 7 you could do forfiles:
#echo off
set found=FALSE
forfiles /p "C:\...[path to folder]" /m *.xlsm /d +1 /c "cmd /c Echo Updating...&CALL Update.bat&set found=TRUE"
if /i %found%==False (
start email.vbs
) else (
Exit
)
And that should work fine
Mona
This worked for me:
#echo off
forfiles /p C:\ /m *.xlsm /d 0 /c "cmd /c call Update.bat"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 start FailEmail.vbs
I think your code should work - some small changes here.
It will just echo the commands to the screen, for you to test.
One point to consider is that the DIR command will also match *.xls files in the short name.
#echo off
set "var=%date:~-10%"
dir "*.xlsm"|find "%var%">nul && (echo CALL Update.bat) || (echo start failemail.vbs)
pause
I am using the following command to dump the complete file listings recursively from a directory.
dir /b /s c:\myfolder > c:\mylist.txt
This works fine but it is display the results with the full path as well, beacuse I am using a regex expression on the results I need them to display only the filenames.
Anyone any ideas?
Kind of an old question but if someone stumbles across this hoping for an answer, perhaps this will help them out.
Running this from the windows command line (CMD.exe) use:
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %a in ('dir /b /s c:\myfolder"') do (#echo %~nxa >>c:\mylist.txt)
endlocal
Running this from a windows .BAT script use:
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /s c:\myfolder"') do (#echo %%~nxa >>c:\mylist.txt)
endlocal
The output might look something like this depending on what files are in the folder you're running the code in:
file1.fil
file2.fil
file3.fil
UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE CODE IS DOING
for /f
means to run a loop through files in this case using the dir /b /s command to help get those files names from directories (folders) and subdirectories (subfolders). As stated in the question, this will give you complete paths to the files. So instead of file.txt you will get C:\folder\file.txt.
"delims="
in this case tells the for loop that it wants the variable %a or %%a
to only have 1 folderpath and filename for every loop.
%a (CMD.exe) %%a (.BAT)
as mentioned above is a variable that changes with each loop. so
everytime the command dir /b /s finds a new filename the variable
%%a changes to the filename.
example:
Loop 1: %%a = c:\folder\file1.fil
Loop 2: %%a = c:\folder\file2.fil
dir /b /s
is the command to print out the files of a directory (folder). By
using the /b and /s the questioner is adding additional criteria.
the command dir not only prints out the files and directories
(folders) in that directory (folder) but also some additional
information about the directory.
the /b tells the command dir that it doesn't want the additional
information.. just the filenames.
The /s tells the command dir to include all the files and
subdirectories (subfolders) in that folder.
do
is the part of the loop that tells what to do during that particular
loop. So in this case it is only doing this one command every loop
(#echo %%~nxa >>c:\mylist.txt)
#echo
is a simple command that prints out whatever you want either to your
computer screen or in this case to a txt file by using #echo %%~nxa
>>c:\mylist.txt
the >> before c:\mylist.txt is especially important. Every time a
loop happens it starts a new line in the txt file and writes the
variable to that line. If only one > is specified it will overwrite
the line in the txt file everytime the loop happens. Which will
defeat the purpose of what this script is designed to do.
%~nxa (CMD.exe) %%~nxa (.BAT)
is the variable %%a as mentioned above except it is parsed (edited)
out the way the questioner #fightstarr20 asked for. Instead of
printing out the variable as C:\myfolder\myfile.fil the variable
will print out as myfile.fil
the ~ in %%~nxa tells the program you want to modify the variable
%%a. In this case by adding n and x.
the n in %%~nxa tells the program you want to modify the variable %%a by
excluding the path from the variable.
example.
-variable %%a = C:\folder\filename.fil
-variable %%~na = filename.
-If you notice however that it leaves the extension .fil off of the filename.
the x in %%~nxa tells the program you want to modify the variable %%a
by excluding the path and the filename from the variable, so all you will get is the extension of the filename.
example.
-variable %%a = C:\folder\filename.fil
-variable %%~xa = .fil
so if you combine both of the modifiers n and x to the variable %%a
you will get the full filename including the extension.
example:
-variable %%a = c:\folder\filename.fil
-variable %%~nxa = filename.fil
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
explained simply is a command that needs to be in the script before
the for loop in order to allow the variable %%a to be modified or "expanded".
endlocal
this turns off the setlocal enabledelayedexpansion command
To get a very helpful explanation and reference for CMD commands I recommend reading ss64.com and for a great forum to get CMD answers I'd recommend dostips.com
Change your regex to get the filename from the entire path.
If you can use powershell, look at Get-ChildItem. You can have more powerful options with it.
Use it like this
dir /b /s C:\myfolder>C:\temp.txt
echo exit>>C:\temp.txt
goto loop
:loop
set /p _x=<temp.txt
findstr /v /c:"%_x%" temp.txt>temp2.txt
type temp2.txt>temp.txt
set _x=%_x:*\=%
echo %_x%>file.txt
if "%_x%" == "exit" (
del temp.txt
del temp2.txt
exit
)
goto loop
You can use for instead of goto if you like, but it will be basicaly the same.
Sorry about the last one...
I know I'm a bit late, but it hurts me that nobody said to take away the /s
dir /b c:\myfolder > c:\mylist.txt
That should do it.
This would surely work, as it works for me.
dir D:(Path to files) /s /b >d:\filelist.txt
You can just use this code:
dir /b > A_fileslist.txt
Copy inside a notepad editor and save as "Fileslist.bat".