From: t.ment@protocol.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:42:21 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
      
   > What I need is to test whether the command   
      
   >   type a > C:\NOSUCHNDIR\test.txt   
      
   I'm not sure what you want. But to test for directory existence, NUL   
   does the trick.   
      
     if not exist \mydir\nul echo mydir missing   
      
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