[inoutno]

Greetings!

I am looking for a tool that allow me to search for a speciffic file in DOS, then save the result in an environment variable. The dir/s command would do fine, only, I want it to search not only on the current drive, but through all drives C - Z. Is there any such?

Thanks in advance,

[Rockn]

Why not see if the file exists and set the variable based on the resunlts.

[inoutno]

Thanks for the suggestion, but since I do not necessarily know where the file may be I cannot check if it exists or not. A batch script will do fine I suppose, only, I wanted to make it as simple as possible since I am not the only one who will use it.

[Couriant]

I haven't have heard of one so I think the batch file will be the way.

[StumpedTechy]

Yeah the only thing I can think of is something like this -

@echo off
Echo Please do not close this prompt searching for file
for %%a in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%a:\file set FILENAME=%%a

this will give you the file wherever its located and set it as the %%a variable.

I don't think a batch file will be bad does the file name change all the time? Also are there multiple copies of this file out there. This can cause other problems too...