batch file - counting number of files in folder and storing in a variable

Question

I am very new to this  Please help me  I was trying to write a batch file program to count number of files in a folder and assign that to a variable and display it to verify that it has been stored please help me with the syntax   thank you in advance -VK

User · Answer

I m going to assume you do not want to count hidden or system files   There are many ways to do this  All of the methods that I will show involve some form of the FOR command  There are many variations of the FOR command that look almost the same  but they behave very differently  It can be confusing for a beginner   You can get help by typing HELP FOR or FOR    from the command line  But that help is a bit cryptic if you are not used to reading it   1  The DIR command lists the number of files in the directory  You can pipe the results of DIR to FIND to get the relevant line and then use FOR  F to parse the desired value from the line  The problem with this technique is the string you search for has to change depending on the language used by the operating system    echo off for  f   A in   dir    find  File s     do set cnt   A echo File count    cnt    2  You can use DIR  B  A-D-H-S to list the non-hidden non-system files without other info  pipe the result to FIND to count the number of files  and use FOR  F to read the result     echo off for  f   A in   dir  a-d-s-h  b    find  v  c      do set cnt   A echo File count    cnt    3  You can use a simple FOR to enumerate all the files and SET  A to increment a counter for each file found    echo off set cnt 0 for   A in     do set  a cnt  1 echo File count    cnt

User · Answer

Change into the directory and   attrib exe  s        find  c  v      EDIT  I presumed that would be simple to discover  use  Process p   new Process    p StartInfo UseShellExecute   false  p StartInfo RedirectStandardOutput   true  p StartInfo FileName    batchfile bat   p Start    string output   p StandardOutput ReadToEnd    p WaitForExit      I run this and the variable output was holding this  D  VSS USSD V3 0 WTU USSD USSDConsole bin Debug gt attrib exe  s           find  c  v    13   where 13 is the file count  It should solve the issue

User · Answer

The fastest code for counting files with ANY attributes in folder  FOLDER  and its subfolders is the following  The code is for script in a command script  batch  file    for  f   a in   2  gt nul dir   FOLDER    a-d b -o -p s  find  v  c      do set n   a  echo Total files   n

User · Answer

The mugume david answer fails on an empty folder  Count is 1 instead of a 0 when looking for a pattern rather than all files  For example   xml  This works for me   attrib exe  s     xml   find  v  File not found -     find  c  v

User · Answer

I have used a temporary file to do this in the past  like this below   DIR  B   DAT   FIND EXE  C  V     gt  COUNT TXT  FOR  F  tokens 1    f IN  COUNT TXT  DO   IF NOT   f  6 SET  MSG File count is   f  and 6 were expected   amp  DEL COUNT TXT  amp  ECHO      ERROR - FILE COUNT WAS   f AND 6 WERE EXPECTED        gt  gt    LOGFILE   amp  GOTO SENDMAIL

User · Answer

echo off setlocal enableextensions set count 0 for   x in    txt  do set  a count  1 echo  count  endlocal pause   This is the best     your variable is     count   NOTE  you can change    txt  to any other file extension to count other files

User · Answer

FOR  f  delims     i IN   attrib exe          find  v  File not found -      find  c  v      DO SET myVar   i ECHO  myVar    This is based on the  much  earlier post that points out that the count would be wrong for an empty directory if you use DIR rather than attrib exe   For anyone else who got stuck on the syntax for putting the command in a FOR loop  enclose the command in single quotes  assuming it doesn t contain them  and escape pipes with

User · Answer

for  F  tokens 1   a in   dir    findstr  File s     do echo  a  Result   C  MyDir gt  for  F  tokens 1   a in   dir    findstr  File s     do  set FILE COUNT  a  C  MyDir gt  echo  FILE COUNT  4       lt    There s your answer

User · Answer

This might be a bit faster   dir  A -D  B     2 gt nul   find  c  v        A -D  - filters out only non directory items  files    B     - prints only file names  no need a full path request          - can filters out specific file names  currently - all   2 gt nul  - suppresses all error lines output to does not count them

[batch-file] batch file - counting number of files in folder and storing in a variable

Examples related to batch-file