Windows command prompt find specific folder name in sub folders

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Say I have a folder tree such as:

C:\Users\Test\My Documents
C:\Users\Test2
C:\Users\Test3\My Documents

What command can I run to search through C:\Users to check which sub folders have a My Documents folder?

So for the above it would come back with:

C:\Users\Test\My Documents
C:\Users\Test3\My Documents

But not

C:\Users\Test2

Also, if I wanted to script renaming any sub folders that are found to be called My Documents and rename these to just Documents, how could I achieve this?

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DIR /AD /B "My Documents" /S

for listing the folders

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Getting a main idea from here:

@echo off
set hh=%time:~-11,2%
set /a hh=%hh%+100
set hh=%hh:~1%
set dateseed=%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%_%hh%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%

if not exist "c:\backups\source\%dateseed%" mkdir "c:\backups\source\%dateseed%"
cd "c:\backups\source\%dateseed%"
copy "c:\source\hello.txt" .

It will create a folder named yyyymmdd_hhmmss (hh in 24-hours format).

You can also check copy /? for further options.

If you're working with files or folders other than on C: make sure you add a line to change to that drive before attempting to make a folder or change dir into one.

Windows – Batch to rename unknown folder name to particular name

In the Windows command prompt, you use the MOVE command to rename folders.

So, Move "Result*" "marks" should work.

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