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   Zaidy036 to Tom Del Rosso   
   Re: DIR of folders   
   02 Jan 23 10:11:50   
   
   From: Zaidy036@air.isp.spam   
      
   On 1/2/2023 3:33 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:   
   > One annoying habit of windows is that it doesn't always distinguish   
   > between   
   > DIR C:\WORK   
   > and   
   > DIR C:\WORK\*.*   
   >   
   > So if you want to list all folders of a certain name like TEMP   
   > C:\Tech\Android\TEMP   
   > C:\Tech\TEMP   
   >   
   > then   
   > DIR /S/B/AD C:\Tech\TEMP   
   >   
   > will look only into   
   > C:\Tech\TEMP   
   >   
   > and since it doesn't contain another TEMP under it like   
   > C:\Tech\TEMP\TEMP   
   >   
   > the output is blank.   
   >   
   > I can think of kludgey ways to get around that, but is there an elegant   
   > way?   
   >   
   >   
   XCOPY /T copies only directory structure so can use its output to   
   control batch flow   
      
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