battle to trap failure in for

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Henry

I have a script with which I'm battling with. I'm checking
file sizes for specific files on certain servers.
This script works 100% except when a failure ocurs with
the directory. I would like to write out an error
message when this ocurs. I've tried all sorts of things
but the error gets lots with the find command.
Any suggestions...?

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=:" %%a in (server_list.txt) do (
for /f "tokens=1-5 delims= " %%i in ('"dir "\\%%a\%%b$%%c%%
d" | findstr /e bytes"') do (
echo %%a %%b:%%c%%d = %%k %%l >> %%a_Sizes.txt
)
)
 
Henry said:
I have a script with which I'm battling with. I'm checking
file sizes for specific files on certain servers.
This script works 100% except when a failure ocurs with
the directory. I would like to write out an error
message when this ocurs. I've tried all sorts of things
but the error gets lots with the find command.
Any suggestions...?

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=:" %%a in (server_list.txt) do (
for /f "tokens=1-5 delims= " %%i in ('"dir "\\%%a\%%b$%%c%%d" | findstr /e bytes"') do (
echo %%a %%b:%%c%%d = %%k %%l >> %%a_Sizes.txt
)
)
Click to expand...

Then check for the existence of that dir before the second for
Without knowing the values you read with the first for its difficult to
give any suggestion.
%%b seem to be single drive letter building system share names with $,
%%c has to include a backslash at start, %%d beeing another folder or
file?
Try something like:
if exist \\%%a\%%b$%%c%%d\NUL (
place the above for here
) else (
echo \\%%a\%%b$%%c%%d doesn't exist >> %%a_Sizes.txt
)
 
You are right on all you assumptions!
I initially wanted to keep all this in one command but
this works for me, THANKS.
 
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