Hello CH members

Im currently writing a SIMPLE batch file with the below two lines for now:

CODE: [Select]@echo off
DIR C:\temp1%1 /s > output.txt

Yes very simple indeed. My purpose though is getting the folder contents of a user profile folder under c:\documents and settings\%USERPROFILE%\Desktop folder.

The 20 machines I am trying to output from have different usernames, is there a global string which can be used to suit the purpose of this batch file.

Could anyone please help with the above?This may help:

Code: [Select]dir "%userprofile%\desktop" /s > output.txt

%userprofile% should expand to C:\Documents and Settings\UserName
The quotes are for the embedded spaces

Good luck. Thanks SW worked a treat. Heres the full batch script for, somenoe might find it useful

Code: [Select]
for /f "tokens=1" %%a in (myList.txt) do (
ECHO -----------------------------------------
ECHO %%a
ECHO -----------------------------------------
ECHO Searching for files... %%a
start rclient %%a /R dir "%userprofile%\desktop" /s > c:\output.txt
REM

)

Modify the myList.txt with the list of machines your to CONNECT to.A little more to my question, I have successfully used the batch to search userprofiles on user PC's, I need now to figure out how to check the servers.

I cannot simply user the %USERPROFILE%\Desktop variable because these folders are located under c:\documents and settings\username\desktop.

Using c:\documents and settings\%USERPROFILE%\Desktop returns a blank output.

Any suggestions on how I could do this?I should really clarify my response...

Using the %userprofile%\desktop variable return contents of C:\documents and settings\Username\desktop on a PC but does not output the folder contents when running the batch file on a server.how about? Code: [Select]"c:\documents and settings\%username%\Desktop"Quote from: mat123 on February 11, 2011, 12:35:32 PM

how about? Code: [Select]"c:\documents and settings\%username%\Desktop"