Batch script find files in a directory

Question

I need to find all find with extension *.job in a specific folder. But somehow my code not work. However it works when i change *.job to specific name such as INV.job?

if exist "C:\WatchFolder\Incoming\*.job" (
 copy /Y /V "C:\WatchFolder\Incoming\*.job" "C:\WatchFolder\InProgress"
 ECHO TRIGGER AUTOMATIONS
)

Thank for reading

Endoro · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-18 08:43:19Z

4

Try this:

dir "C:\WatchFolder\Incoming\*.job" >nul 2>&1 && (
 copy /Y /V "C:\WatchFolder\Incoming\*.job" "C:\WatchFolder\InProgress"
 ECHO TRIGGER AUTOMATIONS
)

if exist does only work for a specific file, not with wild cards * and ?. copy works with wild cards.

answered Apr 18, 2013 at 8:43

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2 Comments

Jon Over a year ago

It would be good to explain why dir && works and what the redirection is for.

Endoro Over a year ago

dir sets an errorlevel <> 0 if it fails and && executes the following commands only if errorlevel=0. Redirection is for cosmetics, it supresses 1) the normal output and 2) the error messages.

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