Make directory if not exists batch file

I don't know the how the internals of the robocopy MOVE or MOV switches work, but honestly it does not really matter for this question. The downvote is a bit much. Sorry Aphoria, but when someone asks how to do something, I think they don't want just any way to do it, but the best way to do, or a selection of possible ways with a comparison of their pros and cons. There does not seem to be any advantage to using RoboCopy over Bali C's method, but there does seem to be a significant disadvantage by wasting a copy process that is not needed.

Bali C Bali C This is a better answer than the selected one because it does what is needed transparently. It avoids an error instead of ignoring one. And further, the same technique can be used with copy instead of the klugey workaround echo f xCopy See superuser.

You Sir deserve a cookie! Lets say you have the following directory structure. You may want to create the directory first and then perform the move. Damian Vogel Damian Vogel 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. If it is not there, or is there as a file, the mkdir command will run, and should cause an error.

You might want to check for whether VTS exists as a file as well. It will simply report that the subdirectory already exists. If your batch or any processes calling it doesn't care about the error level, this method works nicely. Since the question made no mention of avoiding the error level, this answer is perfectly valid.

It fulfills the needs of creating the folder if it doesn't exist, and it doesn't overwrite the contents of an existing folder. Otherwise follow Martin Schapendonk's answer. This one creates the folder, but does not show the error output if folder exists. I highly recommend that you use the first one. The second one is if you have problems with the other. So if I run the code. And if the folder already exists, It will do nothing.

This is what we do if the folder already exists:. Now if I run the code, It will re-create the folder if it already exists.

This is the example code:. Now the if exist part is Optional. If the folder already exists, you can jump to an label instead like this:.

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Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Batch files: If directory exists, do something Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 8 months ago. Active 6 years ago. Viewed 24k times. Julian Moreno. Frank Nocke Frank Nocke 8, 4 4 gold badges 62 62 silver badges 97 97 bronze badges. Aaron Thoma 3, 32 32 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. RomanM RomanM 5, 8 8 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges. Usage: script. Jamal M. Jamal 11 2 2 bronze badges. See also the solution from batchman61 which avoids this issue by checking attributes.

It works even if you don't have read permissions It works with Directory Links Junctions. It works with files whose path contains a Directory Link.

Amr Ali Amr Ali 1, 14 14 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. TechGuy TechGuy 9 1 1 bronze badge. If your objective is to only process directories then this will be useful. Ste Ste 1, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges.

This is an answer to another question. It doesn't fit to THIS question about detection if a given filename is a directory. Seeing as the question has been answered to death. This just allows the user to process directories and skip the checking part. If yes, go to Dir coding. If not, go to File coding. If Yes, go to File coding. Lucien Baron Lucien Baron 6 6 bronze badges. This won't work on folders containing a dot.

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