How to get integer of free disk space in Batch file?

Question

I\'m trying to get integer of free disk space in Batch file. This is a my (very) simple code.

@echo off
wmic logicaldisk get freespace >> freespace.log         


        

Answer 1

I second @dbenham's recommendation to switch to PowerShell (or at least VBScript or JScript). However, if you want to stick with batch and don't need exact numbers you could do something like this:

@echo off

setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /f %%v in ('wmic logicaldisk get freespace ^| findstr /r "[0-9]"') do (
  set val=%%v
  set val=!val:~-6!
  set /a sum+=val
)

echo !sum!

endlocal

The line set val=!val:~-6! removes the last 6 digits from each value. That way you can calculate with Megabytes instead of Bytes, but (obviously) lose some precision, because the value is truncated (and not rounded correctly).

Answer 2

Here is a pure batch solution that can handle numbers greater than ~ 2G:

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set /A "SUMMEG=0" & set /A "SUMONE=0"
set /A "NUM=6" & set "ZER=000000"
for /F "tokens=2 delims==" %%F in ('
    wmic LOGICALDISK GET FreeSpace /VALUE
') do (
    for %%G in (%%F) do (
        set "ONE=%ZER%%%G"
        for /F "tokens=* delims=0" %%H in ("!ONE:~,-%NUM%!") do set "MEG=%%H"
        for /F "tokens=* delims=0" %%H in ("!ONE:~-%NUM%!") do set "ONE=%%H"
        set /A "SUMMEG+=MEG" & set /A "SUMONE+=ONE"
    )
)
if not "!SUMONE:~,-%NUM%!"=="" (set /A "SUMMEG+=!SUMONE:~,-%NUM%!")
set "SUMONE=%ZER%!SUMONE!" & set "SUMONE=!SUMONE:~-%NUM%!"
for /F "tokens=* delims=0" %%H in ("%SUMMEG%%SUMONE%") do set "FRE=%%H"
endlocal & if "%FRE%"=="" (set "FRE=0") else (set "FRE=%FRE%")
echo %FRE%

Answer 3

Use below code. Try replacing the caption text with deviceid if it shows ? or blank.

@echo off
setlocal
set drive=C
set free=?
rem Note: WMIC will output unicode text
wmic logicaldisk where (caption = "%drive%:") get freespace>"%temp%\free.tmp"
for /f %%A in ('type "%temp%\free.tmp"') do (set free=%%A)
echo Free space: %free% bytes
rem if exist "%temp%\free.tmp" del "%temp%\free.tmp"

Answer 4

Here is an exact solution using hybrid batch and powershell. It really should be done with pure powershell, vbscript, or jscript.

The non-intuitive use of tokens and the IF statement are to compensate for the weird interaction between FOR /F and the unicode output of WMIC.

@echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
set /a freeSpace=0
for /f "skip=1 tokens=1,2" %%A in ('wmic logicaldisk get freespace') do (
  if "%%B" neq "" for /f %%N in ('powershell !freeSpace!+%%A') do (
    set freeSpace=%%N
  )
)
echo freeSpace=%freeSpace%