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Windows Batch Scripting: Newest File Matching a Pattern

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Mar 15, 202615810 views
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Problem

This would be lightning quick in linux, but I'm not familiar enough with windows flavour of batch scripting. Basically I want to look for a series of files matching a certain wildcard, and get the one with the most recent modified date. I've gotten as far as: But I'm not sure what manner of compari…

Error Output

for %%X in (*.exe) do (
REM Do stuff....
)

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