Suppose I need to navigate to a sub-folder using the wildcard character *
. What is the command in cmd/batch script?
Example:
My current directory is c:\Users\Test
I have only one sub-folder as 3
I want to navigate to c:\Users\Test\3
cd * //doesn't work
cd *. * //doesn't work
What is the command to navigate?
You could choose one random/the first directory found by a FOR-Loop
for /d %%A in (*) do cd %%A
Are you sure? This is working in my environment:
PS C:\users\myuser\test> ls
Directory: C:\users\myuser\test
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 9/18/2013 9:56 AM 3
PS C:\users\myuser\test> cd *
PS C:\users\myuser\test\3>
This would not work if you try to use it in a directory that has multiple sub-directories. For example, my "Documents" folder has multiple subdirectories:
PS C:\users\myUser\documents> cd *
Set-Location : Cannot set the location because path '*' resolved to multiple
containers. You can only the set location to a single container at a time.
Here's what happens when I try to use the wildcard to match for certain incomplete phrases that are specific enough to return a single match:
PS C:\users\myUser\documents> cd boo*
PS C:\users\myUser\documents\Books>
PS C:\users\myUser\documents> cd *ooks
PS C:\users\myUser\documents\Books>