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any way to exclude folders from the search?

Thanks foxdrive! Works nicely from batch now.

Not kidding; Why cant I get this to run from a batch file?



It's pretty much useless, If I can't schedule it to run from a batch.

I can get his to run from the commandline; not from batch
What do I need to do to run from batch?

actually; foxdrives example works! Sorry! Didn't see where it was outputting the files to

squashman, I see it traversing the folders (searching as you say), but it only displays 100+ lines of "The system cannot find the file specified" I know the file is in 10 different folder trees, extending from the root folder where this script is executed from. My other command; my first e...

both answers don't seem to include the find?

I had dir /s /b and find to find all instances of this file over many folders.
That is still important

Here is what I've got so far. dir/s/b|for /f %i in ('find "test.txt"') do copy "%i" .\ This works, but it overwrites all copied instances leaving the last file copied (only 1 file). I would like some help in adding a count feature to this so I'll be left with all copies of the fi...

Ive been working on this batch file that searches a mac address and informs of the ip address belonging to the mac. I can use: arp -a | find "00-1C-C0-4A-ED-AD" from the command prompt to get an output of: 192.168.0.223 00-1c-c0-4a-ed-ad dynamic I want my batch file to set the ip address t...