Question

what i am trying to achieve is a search feature that will allow the user to put in the name of a file and it will find that file and save the file’s path as a variable so I’m able to use the file path later on is this possible i have not been able to find any information on this

Answer 1

Write a batch file like:

@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
                    ) 
            )
     )

Now here:

%1 is the user provided file name

%2 is the user provided directory to search first.

%3 is the user provided directory to search second.

To save the details into a text file use:

FindAll MyFile.txt d:\dir1 d:\dir2 > MyFile_report.txt 2>&1

The <nul (set /p) trick will output text to the console without a new line