Find a FolderName\file.name combination(s) recursively in a batch file and return the full path(s)-CodePudding

I'm looking to find a specific file name within a specific folder name in a directory recursively and return the full path if there is a match or multiple matches. I'm looking for a pattern search that can possibly even use a 3 part lookup i.e (folderA\folderB\file.name). But 2 will do for now. So far my efforts have brought me to this. But it is terribly slow. 16 seconds to find the match.

   ::recursively find foldername\file.name combination

   cd C:\searchFolder
   for /r %a in (FolderName) do @if exist "%~fa\file.name" echo %~fa

I only need to venture about 2 to 4 levels deep and pull up the first folder\file.ext match and grab the full path. Is there a faster way to do this, with maybe the dir command or an exclusion list or even a true *folder\file pattern search.

CodePudding user response：

Let us first clarify the task with an example folder structure and a file with name file.name in each subfolder of C:\SearchFolder:

C:\SearchFolder
├───FolderA
│   │   file.name
│   │   
│   ├───FolderA
│   │   │   file.name
│   │   │   
│   │   ├───FolderA
│   │   │   │   file.name
│   │   │   │   
│   │   │   ├───FolderA
│   │   │   │       file.name
│   │   │   │       
│   │   │   └───FolderB
│   │   │           file.name
│   │   │           
│   │   └───FolderB
│   │       │   file.name
│   │       │   
│   │       ├───FolderA
│   │       │       file.name
│   │       │       
│   │       └───FolderB
│   │               file.name
│   │               
│   └───FolderB
│       │   file.name
│       │   
│       ├───FolderA
│       │   │   file.name
│       │   │   
│       │   ├───FolderA
│       │   │       file.name
│       │   │       
│       │   └───FolderB
│       │           file.name
│       │           
│       └───FolderB
│           │   file.name
│           │   
│           ├───FolderA
│           │       file.name
│           │       
│           └───FolderB
│                   file.name
│                   
└───FolderB
    │   file.name
    │   
    ├───FolderA
    │   │   file.name
    │   │   
    │   ├───FolderA
    │   │   │   file.name
    │   │   │   
    │   │   ├───FolderA
    │   │   │       file.name
    │   │   │       
    │   │   └───FolderB
    │   │           file.name
    │   │           
    │   └───FolderB
    │       │   file.name
    │       │   
    │       ├───FolderA
    │       │       file.name
    │       │       
    │       └───FolderB
    │               file.name
    │               
    └───FolderB
        │   file.name
        │   
        ├───FolderA
        │   │   file.name
        │   │   
        │   ├───FolderA
        │   │       file.name
        │   │       
        │   └───FolderB
        │           file.name
        │           
        └───FolderB
            │   file.name
            │   
            ├───FolderA
            │       file.name
            │       
            └───FolderB
                    file.name

That folder structure with the files can be created using:

@echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
set "BaseFolder=C:\SearchFolder"
for %%G in (A B) do (
    for %%H in (A B) do (
        for %%I in (A B) do (
            for %%J in (A B) do (
                md "