For /d /r loop not traversing sub-directories for finding desired directory recursively in Batch/CMD script

Question

As aforementioned in Question title, I have a Batch/CMD(OS: Windows 10 64Bit) script to traverse the subfolders inside %LocalAppData% if the passed argument to script is Chrome, and recursively find and list out all folders containing word Cache at any position.

The script I have come up with relying on for /d /r loop is this:

@echo off && setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
if /i "%1" equ "chrome" (
    set "subPath0=\Google"
    set "subPath1=\User Data"
    for /d /r "%LocalAppData%!subPath0!\%1" %%i in (*Cache*) do (
        echo "%%i"
    )
) else (
    for /d /r "%Appdata%\%1" %%i in (*Cache*) do (
        echo "%%i"
    )
)

But regardless of I escape the closing brackets inside for loop like (*Cache*^) or not, the above loop is not listing out any *Cache* directories recursively, even though there are actually Cache folders inside the path(the one on which for loop is running) inside User Data folder.

So can anyone point out what am I doing wrong here and help fix this ?

Note: I know Powershell is good option to Batch/CMD, but this is supposedly part of larger script, so appreciate it much if suggestions/fixes in Batch/CMD.

Answer 1

Remove the path from the FOR command and use a PUSHD instead.

@echo on
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
if /i "%1" equ "chrome" (
    set "subPath0=\Google"
    set "subPath1=\User Data"
    pushd "%LocalAppData%!subPath0!\%~1"
    for /D /R %%i in (*Cache*) do (
        echo "%%i"
    )
    popd
) else (
    pushd "%Appdata%\%1"
    for /d /r %%i in (*Cache*) do (
        echo "%%i"
    )
    popd
)

Why not simplify it to one FOR command?

@echo on
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
if /i "%~1" equ "chrome" (
    set "subPath0=\Google"
    set "subPath1=\User Data"
    set "searchpath=%LocalAppData%!subPath0!\%1"

) else (
    set "searchpath=%Appdata%\%~1"
)

for /d /r "%searchpath%" %%i in (*Cache*) do echo "%%i"