I have been wanting my script to find a folder that starts with the string "onedrive...". My code looks like this,
@echo off
set path="C:\Users\%USERNAME%"
if exist %path% (
cd "%path%\onedrive*"
echo %cd%
cd
)
pause
and the output I get is,
C:\Users\310176421\Backupscript\source
C:\Users\310176421\OneDrive for Business
where the first one is my .bat file directory and the second one is the line i want to make into a variable.
Any ideas?
Oh man don't do this, you are overwriting the system PATH. You have to use another name for that variable. And also you have to set it as local.
@echo off
SETLOCAL
REM blah blah
set _my_custom_path=....
ENDLOCAL
Here is a simple batch code which searches in profile directory of current user for a directory starting with string OneDrive and assigns the full path of first found folder without quotes to an environment variable output next before exiting batch.
@echo off
for /F "delims=" %%I in ('dir /AD /B /S "%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive*" 2^>nul') do (
set "OneDriveFolder=%%~I"
goto FoundFolder
)
echo Could not find a folder OneDrive.
goto :EOF
:FoundFolder
echo Found folder: %OneDriveFolder%
set "OneDriveFolder="
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
dir /?for /?goto /?set /?Note 1: C:\Users\%USERNAME% is not always equal %USERPROFILE% as the profile directory can be also on another drive than drive C: and Users is just the default parent directory for the user profiles on Windows Vista and later.
Note 2: 2^>nul redirects error message output by command DIR to stdout to device nul which means suppressing the error message in case of no directory starting with OneDrive is found case-insensitive. ^ escapes redirection operator > for command FOR to get 2>nul applied on command DIR.
