Ant exists batch file

How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Batch file - if not exist not working Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 2 months ago. Active 5 years, 2 months ago.

Viewed 1k times. Maciej Cygan. Maciej Cygan Maciej Cygan 5, 4 4 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 63 63 bronze badges. I do not see how the IF command could be wrong but I do see another problem with your code.

You are setting a variable inside a code block but you are not using delayed expansion to use that variable in the next line of code.

Squashman adding sleep is not a problem, but finding out why the block executes though it should not? What are you talking about.

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Do I have a way to check the existence of a directory in Ant not a file? Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 5 months ago. Active 2 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 84k times. How do I check for the existence of a folder using Ant? We can check the existence of a file, but can we do the same for a folder as well? Peter Mortensen Chathuranga Chandrasekara Chathuranga Chandrasekara Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Rich Seller Rich Seller But this will set a property value to true. Then how should I check the condition. I mean any "if"? Jeanne Boyarsky. I like Welcome to CodeRanch! I think you need ant-contrib. It has a foreach loop. That lets you iterate through the filenames to check if they exists. It also contains propertyregexp which lets you check for special characters in your list of filenames. Jeanne- Thank you , I have tried with using ant-contrib, but the issue is it does not set any information if the file does not exist , I have used the below approaches Can you please help if i am doing anything wrong Approach 1 In this if a file from the list does not exist in the target location , the condition property is.

Approach three is really close.