Walking a directory

[Morris, Lamar]

I need to remotely walk the directories in a group of shares on a server
to dump a couple of files in each directory. Any help would be
appreciated.

 

Regards

Lamar Morris

Texas Instruments - IT Operations - Windows Server Team

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[foxidrive-7]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:44:10 -0500, "Morris, Lamar" <LamarMorris@...>
wrote:

>I need to remotely walk the directories in a group of shares on a server
>to dump a couple of files in each directory. Any help would be
>appreciated.

Will this help?  It'll provide a list of *.bat files for example.

@echo off
for %%z in (
"share1"
"share2"
"share3"
) do (
for /f "delims=" %%a in (
'dir "\\server\%%~z\*.bat" /o:n /b /s'
) do echo "%%a">>filelist.txt
)

[Morris, Lamar]

Thanks Mic, I'll see if I can modify it to do what I need.

 

Lamar

 

________________________________

From: batchworld@... [mailto:batchworld@...] On
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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:33 PM
To: batchworld@...
Subject: Re: [BATCH WORLD] Walking a directory

 

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:44:10 -0500, "Morris, Lamar" <LamarMorris@...
<mailto:LamarMorris%40ti.com> >
wrote:

>I need to remotely walk the directories in a group of shares on a
server
>to dump a couple of files in each directory. Any help would be
>appreciated.

Will this help? It'll provide a list of *.bat files for example.

@echo off
for %%z in (
"share1"
"share2"
"share3"
) do (
for /f "delims=" %%a in (
'dir "\\server\%%~z\*.bat" /o:n /b /s'
) do echo "%%a">>filelist.txt
)

 



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[giskier]

You can also use pushd to do this

pushd \\server\share
for /R %%p in (*.bat) do echo %%p
popd

The pushd instruction will create a new letter drive for the share and then you can walk the path just like any other folder.  If you are going to do something risky in the loop (like deleting files) use the narrowest wildcards you can (as far away from *.* as you can).   You can also verify that the pushd operation succeeded by checking that the folder name changed and that errorlevel is 0 after the pushd.

set CURRENTFOLDER=%cd%
pushd \\server\share
if errorlevel 1 echo pushd failed & exit /B 1
if "%CURRENTFOLDER%"==%cd% echo pushd did not change the current folder location.  Aborting&exit /B 1
...
...

You can also execute the instructions step by step using Running Steps.  The debugger for batch files (http://www.steppingsoftware.com).  It will even unroll the loops if you step into them.

Hope this helps.

GISkier

Morris, Lamar wrote:

Thanks Mic, I'll see if I can modify it to do what I need.

 

Lamar

 

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From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
Behalf Of foxidrive
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:33 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [BATCH WORLD] Walking a directory

 

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:44:10 -0500, "Morris, Lamar" <[e-mail]
<mailto:LamarMorris%40ti.com> >
wrote:

>I need to remotely walk the directories in a group of shares on a
server
>to dump a couple of files in each directory. Any help would be
>appreciated.

Will this help? It'll provide a list of *.bat files for example.

@echo off
for %%z in (
"share1"
"share2"
"share3"
) do (
for /f "delims=" %%a in (
'dir "\\server\%%~z\*.bat" /o:n /b /s'
) do echo "%%a">>filelist.txt
)

 



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