Batch file to loop through files in subdirectories
This article explains how we can write a batch script to loop through files in subdirectories. We will take an example to explain the concept.
Batch file to loop through files in subdirectories
Assume we have the directory structure shown below.
- Main directory (Contains our .bat file and some top-level directories)
- Sub-directory
- Search Directory
- A bunch of files (Files we want to loop through)
We can get the list of files and folders using the following command in our home directory.
for /f %%f in ('dir /b /r *') do echo %%f
However, we need to search for files in a directory. Here is an example of searching the file structure in a directory.
C:\Users\pc\Search16\0045\search\FP585.txt
/RInstead of using to loop through all the files in all subdirectories /fas shown in the previous example command,
we can use as shown below.
@echo off
for /R %%f in (*.txt) do echo %%f
The above command will display a list of all files having .txt file extension in all subdirectories.
In summary, as mentioned above, when writing a batch command to loop through files in all subdirectories, we can use /Rinstead /f.
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