Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to check if a file exists from inside a batch file [duplicate] Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 1 month ago. Active 2 months ago. Viewed 1. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Chris J Chris J If you are dealing with paths with spaces: stackoverflow. For example: [ That's what I was doing wrong. When piping commands, the expression is evaluated from left to right, so. You can use brackets and conditionals around the command with this syntax:.
Placing an IF command on the right hand side of a pipe is also possible but the CMD shell is buggy in this area and can swallow one of the delimiter characters causing unexpected results. A simple example that does work:. This is so that the IF statement will treat the string as a single item and not as several separate strings. This is an important difference because if you compare numbers as strings it can lead to unexpected results: "2" will be greater than "19" and "" will be less than "10".
Viewed k times. Improve this question. Nicolas Raoul Nicolas Raoul 9, 15 15 gold badges 60 60 silver badges 99 99 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. SYS exists. In the case of checking for drive existence, however, caveats exist: An Abort, Retry, Fail? Improve this answer. This does work on FreeDOS 1. Bart Koopman Bart Koopman 3 3 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Bali C Bali C 1, 10 10 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. My question is about command line.
Would you mind giving an example command line? Also, preferably it should work on read-only filesystems too. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
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