Hi Michał,

> Wolf, wish they could have. My idea is that I could put a Batch script 
> in every game's directory where we can do simple things like start the 
> game or run the setup, or regenerate the config to a known working 
> state. In order to find games dynamically, rather than have a list of 
> games written down in a file, I wanted to run SEARCH C:\GAMES START.BAT, 
> but that started listing absolutely everything on C:\. When I tried 
> doing SEARCH C:\GAMES\**\START.BAT, it printed some nonsense. How can I 
> properly use the SEARCH command?

Don't use SEARCH. (I didn't even know it exists.)

Just use DIR and assume a START.BAT being present in every directory:
dir c:\games /b
dir c:\games /b /p-  <-- do not paginate output

Cheers,
Robert
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