Wildcard for all subdirectories or all descendent directories in windows commandline

Question

I am missing the wildcard character for directories. From linux I have in mind that one can define a path like this:

jslint scripts/**/*.js

which includes all js files from all descendent directories in the scripts directory tree.

jslint scripts/*/*.js

includes all direct subdirectories of scripts/.

In the windows command line this seems not to work. Is there any way to define the same?

Answer 1

there isn't 'cos * or *.* in windows, lists files and directories but you can't do c:\blah\*\*

You can do

C:\tes>for /r %f in (*.mp3) do @echo mp3prog %f
mp3prog C:\tes\a.mp3
mp3prog C:\tes\mof.mp3
mp3prog C:\tes\qw.mp3
mp3prog C:\tes\y\a.mp3

C:\tes>

So you could replace *.mp3 with *.js and mp3prog with jslint that might give what you want.

And remove the @echo

Either * or *.* in those brackets works fine.

You see it lists all the commands it would execute. It goes through every file in c:\tes and all its subdirectories.

Or from any directory

C:\>for /r c:\tes %f in (*.*) do @echo mp3prog %f
mp3prog c:\tes\103.gif
mp3prog c:\tes\a.mp3
mp3prog c:\tes\mof.mp3
mp3prog c:\tes\oo.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\qw.mp3
mp3prog c:\tes\t.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\ta.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\t_.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\u.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\uu.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\y\a.mp3

C:\>

or

C:\>for /f %f in ('dir c:\tes /s/b') do @echo mp3prog %f
mp3prog c:\tes\103.gif
mp3prog c:\tes\a.mp3
mp3prog c:\tes\ff
mp3prog c:\tes\gg
mp3prog c:\tes\mof.mp3
mp3prog c:\tes\oo.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\qw.mp3
mp3prog c:\tes\t.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\ta.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\t_.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\u.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\uu.mpg
mp3prog c:\tes\y
mp3prog c:\tes\y\a.mp3

C:\>