Get full path and long file name from short file name

Question

I have an nice console file manager (eXtreme by Senh Liu), it passes short path/filenames as variables to a menu.bat.

How can I generate a full folder name + long fi

Answer 1

this is an ugly batch job and my code is not nice, but brut force :-)

@echo off &SETLOCAL
SET "short=P:\MYPROG~1\SHELLS\ZBACKUP\REFSTO~1.BAL"
SET "shorty=%short:\= %"

FOR %%a IN (%short%) DO SET "shortname=%%~nxa"
FOR %%a IN (%shorty%) DO (
    IF DEFINED flag (
        CALL :doit "%%~a"
    ) ELSE (
        SET "longpath=%%~a"
        SET flag=true
        SET "first=\"
    )
)
ECHO "%longpath%"
goto:eof

:doit
SET "last=%~1"
IF "%last%" neq "%shortname%" (SET "isDir=/ad") ELSE SET "isDir=/a-d"
FOR /f "delims=" %%b IN ('dir %isdir% %longpath%%first%^|findstr /ri "\<%last%\>"') DO SET "X0=%%b"
FOR /f "delims=" %%b IN ('dir %isdir% /x %longpath%%first%^|findstr /ri "\<%last%\>"') DO SET "X1=%%b"
REM for European time format
IF "%X0: =%"=="%X1: =%" (SET /a token=3) ELSE SET /a token=4
REM for "AM/PM" time format
IF "%X0: =%"=="%X1: =%" (SET /a token=4) ELSE SET /a token=5
FOR /f "tokens=%token%*" %%b IN ('dir %isdir% /x %longpath%%first%^|findstr /ri "\<%last%\>"') DO SET "longname=%%~c"
SET "longpath=%longpath%\%longname%"
SET "first="
goto:eof

Please set your time format in the doit function (delete as applicable format).
This might maybe fail with special characters in path or file names like !%=&^.