How to test if a path is a file or directory in Windows batch file?

Question

I searched here, found someone using this

set is_dir=0
for %%i in (\"%~1\") do if exist \"%%~si\"\\nul set is_dir=1

but didn\'t work, when

Answer 1

The /ad option for "dir" command lists folders, /b option for bare. Assuming you have checks for the existence of file in place, use:

dir /ad /b ChangeThisToYourFilename 1> NUL 2> NUL
if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (
    echo is a file
) else (
    echo is NOT a file
)