Get size of the sub folders only using batch command

Question

I am passing my base folder name (C:\\Users\\IAM\\Desktop\\MHW\\*) in script and want to get the size of the underlying sub folders. The below code is not working.

Answer 1

Unfortunately you cannot pass a root directory path to a for /R loop by another for variable nor a delayedly expanded variable, you must use a normally expanded variable (%var%) or an argument reference (%~1).

You can help yourself out by placing the for /R loop in a sub-routine that is called from the main routine via call. Pass the variable holding the result and the root directory path over as arguments and expand them like %~1 and %~2 in the sub-routine, respectively.

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /D %%G in ("C:\Users\IAM\Desktop\MHW\*") do (
    rem Call the sub-routine here:
    call :SUB sum "%%~G"
    echo %%~G: !sum! KiB
)
pause
endlocal
exit /B

:SUB  rtn_sum  val_path
rem This is the sub-routine expecting two arguments:
rem the variable name holding the sum and the directory path;
set /A value=0, sum=0
rem Here the root directory path is accepted:
for /R "%~2" %%I in (*) do (
    rem Here is some rounding implemented by `+1024/2`:
    rem to round everything down, do not add anything (`+0`);
    rem to round everything up, add `+1024-1=1023` instead;
    set /A value=^(%%~zI+1024/2^)/1024
    set /A sum+=value
)
set "%~1=%sum%"
exit /B

Note that set /A is capable of signed integer arithetics in a 32-bit room only, so if a file is 2 GiB big or more, or the result in sum exceeds 2³¹ - 1, you will receive wrong results.