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.
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)
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
I would study Robocopy to see if this could help (the /L flag is a clue).
