Find all lowercase files in a sub directory

[mpking]

Anyone have an example I can use?

I need to search thru a bunch of folders and subfolders, and find any files/folders that have lowercase characters. I don't need to change them, just list them, or return an error code, or both.

[dbenham]

Simple using FINDSTR with the correct regular expression:

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dir /b /s | findstr "[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz][^\\]*$"

You cannot use [a-z] because of the reasons described at Why does findstr not handle case properly (in some circumstances)?

See What are the undocumented features and limitations of the Windows FINDSTR command? for an extensive list of FINDSTR oddities.


Dave Benham

[mpking]

Thanks!

That fit nicely, and the undocumented features allowed me to have some error handling.

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dir /b /s %EXTRACT% | findstr "[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz][^\\]*$" >> %LOG%\%LOGFILE%
IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 1 (
  ECHO Lower Case File Found
  ECHO Check log at %LOG%\%LOGFILE%
  pause
  GOTO:EOF
)

Yes, the error is slightly backwards, because fail for me is when it finds a match.

[Squashman]

Good to know. I didn't know that the range option didn't work correctly with FINDSTR.