I am working on a document import utility that imports a text document from a specific location. The filename of the document is unknown and I need to find out how to determine the name of the file and make it a temporary value in my script so that it knows what the file name is so that it can ultimately open it in notepad automatically. I tried using *.txt to see if notepad would just open the first file matching this filter within the working directory but it doesn't work. How do I get and then set this unknown filename variable once the document has been copied to the working directory? Here is the code I have for the function so far:
@ECHO OFF :CHECK IF EXIST "*.txt" GOTO :AUTOEDIT IF NOT EXIST "*.txt" GOTO :RUN :AUTOEDIT %SYSTEMROOT%\Notepad.exe "*.txt" GOTO :END :RUN %SYSTEMROOT%\Notepad.exe GOTO :END END 1 Answer
Create this batch file and save it in the folder where the misterious txt file is beeing copied to.
@echo off :CHECK for %%a in (*.txt) do ( set TxtFile=%%a Goto :AUTOEDIT %TxtFile% ) echo Checking for txt files every 10 seconds... timeout /t 10 > Nul cls Goto :CHECK :AUTOEDIT cls echo. echo Hello, I found a file called "%TxtFile%", Press any key to open it... pause > Nul %systemroot%\notepad.exe %Txtfile% 
