I want to get the foldername of the profiles on a pc in a variable to check if there exist a specific folder.
The problem is I get spaces at the beginning and the end of the var like:

" c:\winnt\profiles\all users "
" c:\winnt\profiles\uli "
...

That means I can't work with it.
Deleting all spaces is not possible cause of the all users folder.

Here is my not really working code:

@echo off
cls

FOR /d %%A in (c:\winnt\Profiles\*) do call :sub1 %%A

goto :eof
:sub1

set PROFIL=%*
echo "%PROFIL%"

:eof

thanks in advance for any help
uli

Hi uli,

not sure why you get spaces. My structure is different, but this works:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('dir /s/b/ad "\Documents and Settings\all*"') do (
echo %%A
)

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

Thanks for your quick help M2,

your solution works perfect as long as I don't call a procedur.
Then it is nearly the same effect.

" foldername"

Seems to be a Bug in NT4.
I want it in a procedur cause I delete a folder in every profile and want to analyze an errorcode for a logfile.

uli

Hi uli,

Post your code.

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

M2, you pointed me in the right direction: :-)
This seems to be the solution:

for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('dir /s/b/ad "c:\winnt\Profiles\.folder"') do call :sub1 %%A

goto :eof
:sub1

set folder=%*
set folder=%folder:~1%
rd /s /q "%folder%"
if "%errorlevel%" == "0" (echo %folder% erased >>log.txt)

Hi uli,

Yeah, we're left wondering if it's an NT4 bug.

NOTES:

When testing for errorlevel you can skip the == and simply use:

if errorlevel X do

More important, in your case, note that an errorlevel test will resolve TRUE if the errorlevel is EQUAL OR MORE. So a test for errorlevel 0 will always be true.

What you probably want here is:

if not errorlevel 1 echo it worked

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

Hi M2,

thanks for the errorlevel advice. Helped to avoid one of these little "uli" bugs in my script. I am a bit in a hurry cause of this project. (The profile thing is just a little part...)

uli