I have an install script that needs to behave differently if running on XP/2003 or 7/R2, and it's been working perfectly fine. UNTIL a couple weeks ago I found out that it doesn't run on XPe (works fine on 7e), turns out find.exe is not included in XPe.
My current script uses:
ver | find "5." > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto WinXP
goto Win7
I borrowed a colleagues XPe device to test a workable solution, I tried copying find.exe from XP Pro, but it still didn't work. I tried varying versions (full path to findxp.exe, with/without .exe) of this, but it still doesn't work. Here's the output from XPe.
ver | findxp.exe "5." 1>nul
The system cannot find the file specified.
All I really care to determine is if it's XP/2003, otherwise I'm assuming it's Vista (ha ha) or 2008 or newer. Although I wouldn't object to a solution that told me if it was XPe, I guess that may or may not come in handy in the future, although it would probably make the script slighly more complicated as it would have to account for all versions of Windows.
Thanks, Brian
The code segment below is a direct replacement of your original code that don't require find.exe:
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('ver') do set ver=%%a
if "%ver:5.=%" neq "%ver%" goto WinXP
goto Win7