Create folder with batch but only if it doesn't already exist

Question

Can anybody tell me how to do the following in in a Windows batch script? (*.bat):

• Create a folder only if it doesn\'t already exist

Answer 1

mkdir C:\VTS 2> NUL

create a folder called VTS and output A subdirectory or file TEST already exists to NUL.

or

(C:&(mkdir "C:\VTS" 2> NUL))&

change the drive letter to C:, mkdir, output error to NUL and run the next command.

Answer 2

This should work for you:

IF NOT EXIST "\path\to\your\folder" md \path\to\your\folder

However, there is another method, but it may not be 100% useful:

md \path\to\your\folder >NUL 2>NUL

This one creates the folder, but does not show the error output if folder exists. I highly recommend that you use the first one. The second one is if you have problems with the other.

Answer 3

i created this for my script I use in my work for eyebeam.

:CREATES A CHECK VARIABLE

set lookup=0

:CHECKS IF THE FOLDER ALREADY EXIST"

IF EXIST "%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\CounterPath\RegNow Enhanced\default_user\" (set lookup=1)

:IF CHECK is still 0 which means does not exist. It creates the folder

IF %lookup%==0 START "" mkdir "%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\CounterPath\RegNow Enhanced\default_user\"

Answer 4

set myDIR=LOG
IF not exist %myDIR% (mkdir %myDIR%)

Answer 5

You just use this: if not exist "C:\VTS\" mkdir C:\VTS it wll create a directory only if the folder does not exist.

Note that this existence test will return true only if VTS exists and is a directory. If it is not there, or is there as a file, the mkdir command will run, and should cause an error. You might want to check for whether VTS exists as a file as well.

Answer 6

if exist C:\VTS\NUL echo "Folder already exists"

if not exist C:\VTS\NUL echo "Folder does not exist"

See also https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/65994

(Update March 7, 2018; Microsoft article is down, archive on https://web.archive.org/web/20150609092521/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/65994 )