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Iterate files by extension and substring search

I have this code

for /R "C:\myfiles" %%i in (*super*.ts) do (
echo %%i
)

so I want to iterate over all files in the folder C:\myfiles which have in the path super and end with .ts. e.g.

"c:\myfiles\foo\bar\super\123.ts"

but that substring search doesn't work.

Solution

  • What about this:

    dir /S /B C:\myfiles\*.ts | findstr /I "Super"

    Explanation:

    dir /S : search in subdirectories
dir /B : show bare format, like C:\myfile\subdir\filename.ts
...
findstr /I : filter is case insensitive

    result:

    for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /S /B C:\myfiles\*.ts ^| findstr /I "Super"') do echo %%a