Elegant way to check if a folder exists (windows).. anyone?

[willy_alvarez_automic]

I'm building a solve-all archiving job, with calendar keywords, options to move or delete, based on file age.  I want to add the option to create subfolders by year (2013, 2014) if they dont exist already.

Can you think of an cool way to do this?  I already know I could do it, but I somebody already has done this, please save me the trouble of thinking.

[Anon Anon]

 

Issue Dir /AD which will get you a list of directories

Do a PREP_PROCESS_REPORT with a filter on the diary you want

[Anon Anon]

In a DOS batch file, you can test if the directory already exists with this construct:

     IF EXIST 2013\nul echo "Directory 2013 already exists"

So reversing that logic, you can create the directory if it doesn't exist yet:

     IF NOT EXIST 2013\nul MKDIR 2013