Invert the meaning of the FOR command?

Question

With batch files, it is easy enough to handle all files that share a string in a filename or extension, for example:

FOR /R %F IN (*.EXE) DO @ECHO %F

But what if I want to invert the meaning of a set of files? For example, handle all files that don't end with .EXE?

FOR /R %F IN (anything-but-exe) DO @ECHO %F

I could not find anything similar to what I was looking for by reading the output FOR /?

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Govind Parmar 23 Sep '14 at 1:27

2 answers

This should be another option:

FOR /R %F IN (*.*) DO @if /i not "%~xF"==".exe" ECHO %F

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foxidrive 23 Sep 14 at 1:51 am

npocmaka · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-23T01:32:48+0000

for /f "tokens=* delims=" %a in ('dir /s /b /a:-d^|findstr /i/e/v ".exe" ') do @echo %a