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Name: jazzy
Date: October 31, 2003 at 14:07:41 Pacific
OS: windows 2000
CPU/Ram: pentium 4
Comment:

hi,

would you please show me how to write
a command in a batch file to find a
directory, e.g., wwwroot, in any
disk drive, then assign the full path
name to a variable.

tia,
jazzy



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Name: dtech10
Date: October 31, 2003 at 16:15:00 Pacific
Reply:

Hi jazzy
Try something like this, it worked in
WinXP Pro ok.

@echo off
dir /s | find /i "wwwroot" | find "Directory" > temp.txt
for /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims= " %%a in (temp.txt) do set Dir=%%c
echo %Dir%


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Response Number 2
Name: jazzy
Date: November 3, 2003 at 16:01:37 Pacific
Reply:

thank you so much ! that works great !


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