Question

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.

Answer 1

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)