A .bat or .wsh script that can search for files

I

3

6

I am looking for some examples of a .bat OR .wsh script that can do the following:

Recursively read file names in a directory with a user-provided extension (.dll, .exe, etc)
Search a user-provided directory for the above file names
Generate a txt or xls report of the findings, like: x.txt was found in "C:\temp", "C:\blah"

TIA.

EDIT:

Oops, I should clarify: there are two directories and two searches here.

Search 1:

Search a user provided directory "Dir 1" for all *.dll's.

Search 2:

Search a different user provided directory "Dir 2" for the file names generated in Search 1. This search also needs to be recursive.

So, if Search 1 finds foo.dll, foo2.dll and foo3.dll in Dir 1, Search 2 should look in Dir 2 for foo.dll, foo2.dll and foo3.dll, and provide a report (simple listing) of each found file.

Initiate answered 5/1, 2009 at 22:21 Comment(0)

K

9

Put the following in a .bat file, say FindAll.bat:

@echo OFF

for /f %%F in ('dir %2\%1 /s /b') do (
    <nul (set /p msg=%%~nxF )
    for /f %%G in ('dir %3\%%~nxF /s /b') do (
        if exist %%G (
            @echo found at %%G
        ) 
    )
)

%1 is the user provided file mask.

%2 is the user provided directory to search first.

%3 is the user provided directory to search second.

Call from the command line to generate a report:

FindAll *.dll d:\dir1 d:\dir2 > dll_report.txt 2>&1

The <nul (set /p) trick will output text to the console without a new line (courtesy Pax from this thread: How to code a spinner for waiting processes in a Batch file?)

The 2>&1 added when calling the batch file is needed to capture all the output to the file (courtesy aphoria from this thread: Underused features of Windows batch files)

Keramic answered 6/1, 2009 at 2:27 Comment(2)

This gets us close; need to add a /s to the first line. What we really need is a way to strip the directory from the filename in %%f; right now it is looking for the full file name from dir1 in dir2. Also, the search in dir2 (%%3) needs to be recursive as well. – Initiate 6/1, 2009 at 17:9

Great, thanks for coming back and altering this, and for the showing how to use <nul and 2>&1. – Initiate 7/1, 2009 at 1:15

I

18

Why not use dir?

Search current directory and all subdirs for dlls

dir /S *.dll

Search all of C for dlls

dir /S C:\*.dll

Save a report

dir /S C:\*.dll > report.txt

Ium answered 5/1, 2009 at 22:27 Comment(2)

Check out my follow up answer, which clarifies the question. – Initiate 6/1, 2009 at 0:17

Ah, thank you very much! It didn't even occur to me that dir would do this! Also, you can use dir /B /S "myPath""*myString*". – Liberticide 31/3, 2012 at 15:25

K

9