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IF Exists with wildcards?

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Name: jaydenjamar
Date: May 11, 2007 at 12:27:07 Pacific
Subject: IF Exists with wildcards?
OS: XP/2003/2000
CPU/Ram: Intel Core Duo 2.4
Model/Manufacturer: Home Made

Comment:

I have been writing a batch script that needs to check for the existence of a file and do some action, however the filenames changes daily. I was going use the IF Exist command with *.txt or whatver the extension is, but IF Exist does not support wildcards. Anyone know a way to use IF Exist with wildcards or some other mehtod?

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Response Number 1

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: May 11, 2007 at 12:33:25 Pacific
Subject: IF Exists with wildcards?

Reply: (edit)

It DOES
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C:\temp>if exist *.bat echo y
y

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2

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Response Number 2

Name: jaydenjamar
Date: May 11, 2007 at 14:00:53 Pacific
Subject: IF Exists with wildcards?

Reply: (edit)

thanks mechanix, this might work for me.. Any other ideas are still welcome..

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Response Number 3

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: May 11, 2007 at 14:58:53 Pacific
Subject: IF Exists with wildcards?

Reply: (edit)

If you code is failing to brach, maybe it's some other problem. You can post your code.

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Response Number 4

Name: jaydenjamar
Date: May 11, 2007 at 15:58:53 Pacific
Subject: IF Exists with wildcards?

Reply: (edit)

Looks like its working. Thanks for your help!

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