Comments on: If Else statements in batch files

By: Falconlarat

Falconlarat — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000

not trying to call anyone out but this line;
~
if %was%==test (goto yes) else (goto no)
~
runs with no problems on 7 and vista

By: Cccc

Cccc — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:51:00 +0000

@echo:disqus off
echo HELLO WORLD!!!
echo Press any key to exit.
pause > nul
exit

By: Michael Joseph Johnson

Michael Joseph Johnson — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:48:00 +0000

I am trying to set the following condition in a batch file. The user is required to enter syntax when prompted this part works
SET /P test=WWIDINFO Enter WWID
then I have an if like this
if “%test%” GTR “0″ GOTO label1(Not sure if this is what I really want but it worke because I goto label and it executes what I want
:label1net user /domain %test% > d:%test%.txtgoto :EOF

what I want here is to have an if that makes sure the text entered is the correct syntax
the sytax is correct with the following
llnnn (Where ll= letters and nnn=numbers
llnnl is also correct (Where the last letter is either d or a)
so my if should check this condition and if not ECHO Incorrect syntax) and return to :top ELSE goto :label

By: Robert Schoultz

Robert Schoultz — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:10:00 +0000

Hello Angshuman. I just found this site and I messed around a bit and I noticed IF ELSE statements will only work if it is positioned like this (Running Windows 7 here):

IF condition (
do something
) ELSE (
do something else
)

So in other words, this wont work:
IF condition ( do something ) ELSE ( do something else )

Batch language is picky .

By: Angshuman

Angshuman — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:56:00 +0000

Hi Mark,
I am using the if else like below,

if Exist %loc%some_directorynul ( echo Exists ) else ( mkdir %loc%my_directory )

which is giving me a 1kb unknown file with the name my_directory. Where I am doing the mistake could not find. Please help.

By: Anu

Anu — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:37:14 +0000

What if the %cd$% resolves to a directory with brackets in it..
IF “%1″==”.” (
set WORKING_DIRECTORY=%cd%
) ELSE (
set WORKING_DIRECTORY=%1
)
where %cd% resolves to say C:\abc(2)\bin

The if condition fails..

By: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:24:52 +0000

The tip about [] for empty args is really useful, often arguments contain spaces and so you end up with something like this which will break:

IF “”my 1st argument”"==”" GOTO Continue

By: Julian Simpson

Julian Simpson — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:12:41 +0000

Mark,

I’m with you on Cygwin where you need to redistribute the Cygwin binaries. It’s painful. I’m betting on dynamic languages.

Once Iron Ruby has a production release I think it will be very compelling for this kind of thing.

Something has to put batch programming to bed …

By: Mark Needham

Mark Needham — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:37:00 +0000

The reason I’m not using cygwin is because we’re using the same script to deploy stuff on different machines e.g. one for QA, one for Showcase etc and for flexibility it seemed easier just to work with the lowest denominator.

By: Jayesh

Jayesh — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:46:18 +0000

Can you not use cygwin?