I wish I had known these undocumented wildcards exists like two decades ago: [WayBack] windows – Batch-file: Check if file with pattern exist – Stack Overflow, thanks Squashman:
There are undocumented wildcards that you can use to achieve this as well.
IF EXIST "D:\*Backup*.<" ( ECHO "file exist" ) ELSE ( ECHO "file not exist" )This wildcard option and other were discussed in length at the following two links.
- [WayBack] http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6207
- [WayBack] http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5057
From those links:
The following wildcard characters can be used in the pattern string. Wildcard character Meaning * (asterisk) Matches zero or more characters ? (question mark) Matches a single character " Matches either a period or zero characters beyond the name string > Matches any single character or, upon encountering a period or end of name string, advances the expression to the end of the set of contiguous > < Matches zero or more characters until encountering and matching the final . in the name
–jeroen
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