Windows cmd if exists directory

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Email required Address never made public. Improve this question. Pietro Pietro 1, 5 5 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. This is correct for testing file existence, but how do you know that it's a directory?

Alternately, you could actually get a test binary and use it on Windows. Show 1 more comment. Here is what I just found out: You can test if a nul file exists; if the directory exists it will contain a nul file, if the nul file does not exist then the directory does not exist. It should be a backslash, not a forward slash. Community Bot 1. Now you would use this, with a trailing backslash.

Damian Damian 41 1 1 bronze badge. That was the only solution that worked, thanks. Richard Rombouts Richard Rombouts 11 2 2 bronze badges. Here's a way to test the directory exists only when its a valid directory. Mason M. Joe Joe You should have given some output. 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". IF should work within the full range of 32 bit signed integer numbers -2,,, through 2,,, You can perform a string comparison on very long numbers, but this will only work as expected when the numbers are exactly the same length:.