Question

I’m currently trying to write a .cmd Windows Shell script that would iterate over a set of folders. However even the following simplest script:

echo "%ROOT%"
for %%f in ("%ROOT%\Binaries\" ) do (
    echo "%%f"
    if not exist "%%f\Subfolder"
        md "%%f\Subfolder"
)

outputs:

CurrentDir>echo "<ActualPathToRoot>"
"<ActualPathToRoot>"
%f\Subfolder was unexpected at this time
CurrentDir>if exists "%f\Subfolder"

What am I doing wrong? How do I alter that script so that it iterates over that one folder and once it see there’s no subfolder named “Subfolder” it creates that subfolder? Also is there a good tutorial on writing such scripts?

Answer 1

This works for me:

echo %ROOT%
for /D %%f in (%ROOT%\Binaries\*) do echo %%f && if not exist %%f\Subfolder md %%f\Subfolder