How do I find an error in the for loop if there is no directory found?

[PiotrMP006]

How do I find an error in the for loop if there is no directory found?

ex.

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for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir "%cd%" /a:d /b 2^> nul') do (
echo %%a
)

%errorlevel% always is 0

Please help me

[aGerman]

The command line enclosed in single quotes runs in a separate cmd.exe process. That's the reason why you can't get the errorlevel.
If you don't have subfolders in %cd% the loop body is never executed. You may use a helper variable.

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set "folders_present="
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir "%cd%" /a:d /b 2^> nul') do (
  set "folders_present=1"
  echo %%a
)
if not defined folders_present echo No folder found.

Steffen