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

For a 1 liner:

dir /a:d /b C:\Windows 2>&1 | findstr /i /n /c:"File Not Found">nul && (@echo. Im a file) || (@echo. Im a folder)

e.g. change C:\Windows to C:\Windows\Notepad.exe

-Sorry Arun, dbenham, didn't read yours! Same as..