if dir doesnt exist make it

Mechanix2Go March 31, 2010 at 14:08:28

"what is wrong?" The spaces in the SETs. ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

spaces don't make a difference. I say again, "I can make it work when I place tester into the if statement instead of the folder variable." this is not changing anything in the code but the variable %folder% is deleted and the tester is in its place. making that %folder% variable in that path name just doesn't seem to take. any ideas? Thanks for the help, Trevor

Razor2.3 March 31, 2010 at 14:27:13

foremore: any ideas? Mechanix2Go: The spaces in the SETs.

this still doesn't work set drivepath=%CD% set folder=tester IF NOT EXIST %drivePath%\%folder% md %drivePath%\%folder% (without the spaces for the sets) what else?

Mechanix2Go March 31, 2010 at 15:29:13

set drivepath=%CD% set folder=tester IF NOT EXIST "%drivePath%\%folder%" md "%drivePath%\%folder%" ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

nbrane March 31, 2010 at 21:05:47

yeah, in this age of insanity, we always need quotes :( other thing, post your full code? is it inside a block? then you have the delayedexpansion issue going on... another consideration is why worry? just attempt create the dir and ignore errors? that's what i usually do: md fff 2>nul || goto :testnext but i do understand if you need finer tuning, like if a file already exists by that name etc.

tvc April 1, 2010 at 07:58:02

Quotes ... always the same problems return ... Note that some commands do work nicely though (MS is not consistent here): D:\Temp>mkdir This is a test D:\Temp>cd This is a test The system cannot find the path specified. D:\Temp>mkdir "This is a test" D:\Temp>cd This is a test D:\Temp\This is a test>

Thanks all. It all makes sense now.