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Is there a simple command line program to check whether a particular folder exists, and if yes, make another folder in that folder?

halfer
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vrun
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I'd just try to create the folder as a subfolder.

If that fails because the outer folder does not exist, we have the desired behaviour, and all we need to do is ignore the error.

Simon Richter
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if exist C:\Temp\ mkdir C:\Temp\1

m0Re "advanced" way:

@echo off

set root=C:\temp
set new=\NewFolder

if exist %root% goto L2

goto L3

:L2
if not exist %root%%new% mkdir %root%%new%

:L3
Zam
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  • thanks Zam..bt i'm still struggling to get results – vrun Feb 18 '14 at 12:30
  • permission issue? do you get any error? can you show any of your code? – Zam Feb 18 '14 at 12:40
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    I tried to modify your code a bit. actually I want to create folder by the name of year. Then check if folder exists in this folder by the name of month, if not create it. Then create a folder of today's date and then copy backup files in it. For Example \2014\Feb\18. @echo off set year=%year% set month = %month% set dd=%date% if exist %year%\%month% goto L2 goto L3 :L2 if not exist %year%\%month% mkdir %root%%new%%dd% :L3 – vrun Feb 18 '14 at 12:45
  • just suggestion: try to use more simple way "mkdir %date%" – Zam Feb 18 '14 at 12:59
  • i am also using batch files for archive log files, create backups, and store it in %date% folder on few different drives... – Zam Feb 18 '14 at 13:00
  • I tried that already. I want it as \Year\Month\date. md %date% will create folder by today's date – vrun Feb 18 '14 at 13:07
  • check this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1192476/windows-batch-script-format-date-and-time and this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14810544/get-date-in-yyyymmdd-format-in-windows-batch-file – Zam Feb 18 '14 at 13:22
  • Good. @vrun please accept my answer as right one. thanks! – Zam Feb 19 '14 at 07:23