search in log for file names in folder

[schumway]

 Not sure what I am doing wrong here...
Windows 7 but running it as a dos batch file

have a bunch of PDFs in a folder (c:\files\*.pdf) and I want to see which of these files are not in a log file.

in the log file the messages are (once per file):
>>>log.txt
Login name is [email protected]
Attached binary file: MAY2019_1978727_E.pdf
File saved.
>>>

What I thought I would need was...

@echo off
for %%f in (c:\files\*.pdf) DO (
echo %%~nxf
findstr /m %%~nxf log.txt
if %errorlevel% NEQ 0 (
echo %%~nxf was not found XXXXXXXXX
)
)


pseudo code...
for all the PDFs in the "files" folder
find the file name (no path header) in the log file log.txt
If the file is not in the folder
then echo the file name was not found XXXXXX

basically the log file confirms all the files that should be in the folder but looking for any PDFs that are not in the log file for some reason

I am sure it is something simple but brain stopped working after version 15 and a couple of hours googling lol

thanks

[Salmon Trout]

You can't set + read a %...% type variable in a loop; you have to use delayed expansion and use ! instead of % around the variable name.

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%f in (c:\files\*.pdf) DO (
    echo %%~nxf
    findstr /m %%~nxf log.txt
    if !errorlevel! NEQ 0 (
        echo %%~nxf was not found XXXXXXXXX
    )
)

[Salmon Trout]

If you just want a console message saying whether or not a PDF file was found in the log, you can simplify the batch a lot, to one line in fact:

@for %%f in (c:\files\*.pdf) do @findstr %%~nxf log.txt >nul && (echo %%~nxf found: YES) || (echo %%~nxf found: NO XXXXXXX)

Code: [Select]

FAQ.pdf found: YES
faq2.pdf found: NO XXXXXXX

   

[schumway]

Many thanks... this worked great. I just created a small batch file to call the one below and piped it to another log file and then just did a search for the XXXX... interesting tidbit... was expecting 15 and found 27 (out of 5500) so it has also found another potential issue we need to look into. Thank-you for that as well!

You can't set + read a %...% type variable in a loop; you have to use delayed expansion and use ! instead of % around the variable name.

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%f in (c:\files\*.pdf) DO (
    echo %%~nxf
    findstr /m %%~nxf log.txt
    if !errorlevel! NEQ 0 (
        echo %%~nxf was not found XXXXXXXXX
    )
)